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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 133 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FAIRMONT  , a

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city and the
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county-seat of
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Marion county,
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West
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Virginia, U.S.A., on both sides of the
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Monongahela
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river, about 75 in . S.E. of
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Wheeling . Pop . (189o) 1023; (1900) 5655, of whom 283 were negroes and 182
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foreign-
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born; (1910) 9711 . It is served by the
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Baltimore &
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Ohio railway . Among its manufactures are
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glass, machinery,
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flour and
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furniture, and it is an important
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shipping point for
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coal
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mined in the vicinity . The city is the seat of one of the West Virginia
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state normal
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schools . Fairmont was laid out as
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Middletown in 1819, became the county-seat of the newly established Marion county in 1842, received its
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present name about 1844, and was chartered as a city in 1899 .

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