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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 783 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LITCHFIELD  , a

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city of
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Montgomery
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county,
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Illinois, U . S . A., about 5o M . N.E. of St
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Louis,
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Missouri . Pop . (1900) 5918; (1910) 5971 . Its
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principal importance is as a railway and manufacturing centre; it is served by the
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Chicago,
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Burlington &
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Quincy, the Chicago &
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Alton, the
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Cleveland,
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Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, the Illinois Central, the
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Wabash, and the Litchfield &
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Madison
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railways, and by electric lines connecting with St Louis and the neighbouring towns . In the vicinity are deposits of bituminous
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coal,
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fire-
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clay and moulding
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sand . There are various manufactures in the city . Litchfield was incorporated as a
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town in 1856, and was first chartered as a city in 1859 .

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