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Sterling| City and administrative headquarters of Logan County, northeastern Colorado, on the South Platte River, 129 km/80 mi northeast of Greeley; population (1990) 10,400. It markets and ships cattle and agricultural products, refines beet sugar, and has been a gas and oil centre since 1950. It has meat processing plants, railway shops, and grain elevators, and manufactures steel and concrete products. |
| Northeastern Junior College of Colorado (1941) and the Overland Trail Museum are here. |
Sterling| City in northwestern Illinois, across the Rock River from Rock Falls, 21 km/13 mi southwest of Dixon; population (1990) 15,100. Its most important product is builders' hardware; others include steel and steel products, nuts and bolts, mobile homes, and barbers' supplies. |
Sterling| City in south-central Kansas, 27 km/17 mi northwest of Hutchinson; population (1990) 2,100. Founded in 1872, it is a processing centre for wheat and salt, and the seat of Sterling College (1887). |
Sterling| Community in northern Virginia, 26 km/16 mi northwest of Arlington County, and just northeast of Washington Dulles International Airport; population (1990) 20,500. It is a largely residential suburb, with business and industrial parks on the airport's perimeter. |
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| My next enquiries were concerning Philippa and her Husband, the latter of whom I learned having spent all her fortune, had recourse for subsistence to the talent in which, he had always most excelled, namely, Driving, and that having sold every thing which belonged to them except their Coach, had converted it into a Stage and in order to be removed from any of his former Acquaintance, had driven it to Edinburgh from whence he went to Sterling every other Day. Besides my plate and family pictures, household furniture of every kind, my own, my children's, and servants' apparel, they carried off about £900 sterling in money, and emptied the house of everything whatsoever, except a part of the kitchen furniture, not leaving a single book or paper in it, and have scattered or destroyed all the manuscripts and other papers I had been collecting for thirty years together, besides a great number of public papers in my custody. Stevens is an agreeable writer, and, as is the case with men of talent, his gifts adorn his sterling soundness. |