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ARDMORE , a township and the county-seat ofSee also: Carter county, Oklahoma, U
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S
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A., just S. of the Arbuckle Mountains, about 120 M
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S. by E. of See also: Guthrie
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Pop
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(19o0) 5681; (1909) 8959 (2122 being negroes, and 1o8 See also: Indians); (1910) 86x8
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It is served by the See also: Chicago, See also: Rock See also: Island & Pacific, the St See also: Louis &
See also: San Francisco, and the Gulf, See also: Colorado & See also: Santa Fe See also: railways
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Ardmore is the market-See also: town and distributing point for the surrounding agricultural region, which is the home of a large See also: part of the See also: Chickasaw and See also: Choctaw nations
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It is situated
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890 ft. above the See also: sea in a See also: cotton and grain producing region, in which cattle are raised and fruit and vegetables grown; See also: coal, oil, natural See also: gas and rock See also: asphalt (which is used for paving the streets of Ardmore) are found in the vicinity
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Ardmore is an important cotton market, and has cotton gins, a cotton compress, machine shops, See also: bridge See also: works, foundries, bottling works and manufactories of cotton-seed oil, brick, concrete, See also: flour, brooms, mattresses and dressed See also: lumber
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At Ardmore are the See also: Saint See also: Agnes See also: Academy, a Catholic school for girls, and Saint Agnes See also: College for boys, a conservatory of See also: music, Hargrove College, and the Selvidge Commercial College
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Near Ardmore is a summer school on the See also: Chautauqua (q.v.) See also: system
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Ardmore was founded in 1887, and was incorporated in 1898 . |
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