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CARTHAGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 431 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARTHAGE  , a

city and the county-seat of
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Jasper county,
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Missouri, U.S.A., on the Spring
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river, about 950 ft. above sea-level, and about 150 M . S. by E. of Kansas City . Pop . (189o) 7981; (1900) 9416, of whom 539 were negroes; (1910 census) 9483 . It is served by the St Louis &
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San Francisco, the Missouri Pacific, and the St Louis, Iron Mountain &
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Southern
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railways, and is connected with Webb City and
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Joplin, Mo., and
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Galena, Kan., by the electric
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line of the Southwest Missouri railway . The
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town is built on high ground underlain by solid
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limestone, and has much natural and architectural beauty . It is the seat of the Carthage Collegiate Institute (Presbyterian) . A
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Chautauqua assembly and a county
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fair are held annually . In the vicinity there are valuable lead,
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zinc and
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coal mines, and quarries of Carthage "marble," with which the county court house is built . Carthage is a jobbing centre for a fruit and grain producing region; live-stock (especially harness horses) is raised in the vicinity; and among the city's manufactures are lime,
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flour, canned fruits, furniture, bed springs and mattresses,
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mining and
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quarrying machinery, ploughs and woollen goods . In 1905 the factory products were valued at $1,179,661 . Natural
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gas for domestic use and for factories is piped from the Kansas gas fields .

The

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municipality owns and operates the electric-
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lighting plant . Carthage, founded in 1833, was laid out as a town and became the county-seat in 1842, was incorporated as a town in 1868, was chartered as a city in 1873, and in 1890 became a city of the third class under the general (state) law . On the 5th of
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July 1861 about 3500 Confederates under General James E . Rains and M . M . Parsons, accompanied by Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson (1807-1862), and 1500 Union troops under Colonel Franz Sigel, were engaged about 7 M. north of the city in an indecisive skirmish which has been named the
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battle of Carthage .

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