MORGAN CITY, a city of St. Mary parish, Louisiana, U.S.A., 8o m. W.S.W. of New Orleans, on the Atchafalaya river, Federal highway 90, and the Southern Pacific railway. Pop. 5,429 in 1920; 5985, 193o. It is the centre of the muskrat-raising district of the state, and has a large fish and oyster industry, a stone crusher making railroad ballast, box factories, saw and planing mills and other manufacturing plants. Its water-borne commerce (all domestic) amounted in 1925 to 777,211 tons, valued at $2,638,568. The city was founded in 1856 and incorpo rated in 186o as Brashear City, adopting its present name in 1878. MORGANTOWN, a city of West Virginia, U.S.A., the county seat of Monongalia county ; on the Monongahela river and Federal highways 19 and 119, at an altitude of 825 ft., 1 oo m. S. of Pittsburgh. It is served by the Baltimore and Ohio and the Monongahela railways and river steamers. The population was
12,127 in 192o (9o% native white) and was 16,186 in I93o by the Federal census. It is the seat of West Virginia university (estab lished 1867), which has a 5o ac. campus on the river, farms of 700 ac. a mile distant, and an enrollment in 1926-27 of 3,849 students at Morgantown, with 1,205 more in extension courses given in various mining towns and industrial communities through out the state. Morgantown is a coal-mining centre and has va rious manufactures (especially cut glass, wire glass, window glass and watch crystals), with an output in 1925 valued at $3,739,916. The city was founded in 1768 by David and Zackwill Morgan. It was incorporated as a town in 1785, and chartered as a city in 1905, after the annexation of Greenmont, Seneca and South Morgantown.