Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . e were several boatvards, steam saw mills, a woolen factory and a large steam flourmill. The greatest growth and accjuisition of large enterpriseshave come within the last quarter of a century, when over-crowdedPittsburg has sought desirable locations near the city formanufacturing enterprises, where operatives are employed bythousands and where many acres of land are required for the 535 Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal proper conduct of business. Few, indeed, if any, of these vast in-dustries are owned by McKeesport people, Ijut l)
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Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . e were several boatvards, steam saw mills, a woolen factory and a large steam flourmill. The greatest growth and accjuisition of large enterpriseshave come within the last quarter of a century, when over-crowdedPittsburg has sought desirable locations near the city formanufacturing enterprises, where operatives are employed bythousands and where many acres of land are required for the 535 Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal proper conduct of business. Few, indeed, if any, of these vast in-dustries are owned by McKeesport people, Ijut l)y heavily capital-ized corporations whose stockholders are widely scatteredthroughout the country. Yet the city has been built u]) throughtheir enterprise and is maintained by their wealth. In 1880McKeesport, then a borough, had 8, 212 population: in igoo thecity population was 34, 227. The borough l^ecaiuc a charteredcity January 15, 1891. The site whereon now stands the city of Chester was first set-tled by Swedes and formed a part of the territory of New. Newtown Ircim an old print issued about 1840 Sweden, extending from Cape Henlopen to Trenton Falls. Thework of colonization was begun in 1638 and continued until theterritory on both sides of the Delaware was settled. In 1655New Sweden was conquered by the Dutch, and in 1664 the latterpower was compelled to yield to the English force sent out againstall the Dutch possessions in Netherland and its dependencies.It may be said, however, that the Dutch did not oppose the Eng-lish with armed resistance, but submitted to the authority of thestronger power and recognized its sovereignty in the New World.Thus the Dutch were permitted to retain most of their settle-ments and lands. The town, which subsequently became Ches-ter, was called by the Swedes, Upland, and it was the seat ofauthoritv until the coming of illiam Penn for all the white Planting of the Cities settlements on the west side of the Delaware, from the icinityof ^^^i