Glassboro, borough, Gloucester County, southern New Jersey; incorporated 1920. Manufactures include cocoa, bottle closures, and precision instruments. A glass museum is here. The community was settled in the 1770s by glassmakers and was an important glass-bottle manufacturing center for 150 years, from which its name is derived. In 1967 a meeting between President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Premier Aleksey N. Kosygin took place here at Glassboro State College, now Rowan College (1923). Population 14,574 (1980); 15,614 (1990); 19,068 (2000).Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001
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