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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 680 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CENTRALIA  , a

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city of
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Marion
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county,
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Illinois, U.S.A., in the S.
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part of the
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state, about 62 m . E. of St
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Louis . Pop . (1890) 4763; (1900) 6721 (571
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foreign-
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born); (1910) 9680 . The city is served by the
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Chicago,
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Burlington &
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Quincy, the Illinois Central, the Illinois
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Southern, and the Southern
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railways; the first two have repair shops here . Centralia is situated in the central part of southern Illinois, popularly known as "
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Egypt." Among its manufactures are window
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glass, envelopes, cigars,
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concrete blocks and
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flour . In and near the city
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coal is
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mined, and apples, strawberries and other fruits are raised, and the city is a
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shipping point for coal and
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fruit . Centralia was first settled in 1853, and was first chartered as a city in 1859 .

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