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DEFIANCE , a city and the county seat of Defiance county,See also: Ohio, U.S.A., at the confluence of the Auglaize and See also: Tiffin See also: rivers with the Maumee, about 5o m
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S.W. of Toledo
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Pop
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(189o) 7694; (1900) 7579 (960 See also: foreign-See also: born); (1910) 7327
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It is served by the Baltimore & Ohio and the See also: Wabash See also: railways, and by the Ohio Electric railway to See also: Lima (42 m.)
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The city commands a See also: fine view of the rivers and the surrounding country, which is well adapted to See also: agriculture; and has large machine shops and several See also: flour mills, besides manufactories of agricultural implements, waggons, sashes and blinds, and See also: wood-working machinery for the manufacture of artillery wheels
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Here, too, is Defiance See also: College, an institution of the Christian Denomination, opened in r885
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Defiance was long the site of an See also: Indian See also: village
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In 1794 General Anthony See also: Wayne built a fort here and named it Defiance
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In 1822 Defiance was laid out as a See also: town; in 1845 it was made the county seat of the newly erected county; and in 1881 it became a city of the second class
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