LITCHFIELD
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V16,
Page 783
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
LITCHFIELD
, a See also:city of See also:Montgomery See also:county, See also:Illinois, U
.
S
.
A., about 5o M
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N.E. of St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, See also:Missouri
.
Pop
.
(1900) 5918; (1910) 5971
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Its See also:principal importance is as a railway and manufacturing centre; it is served by the See also:Chicago, See also:Burlington & See also:Quincy, the Chicago & See also:Alton, the See also:Cleveland, See also:Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, the Illinois Central, the See also:Wabash, and the Litchfield & See also:Madison See also:railways, and by electric lines connecting with St Louis and the neighbouring towns
.
In the vicinity are deposits of bituminous See also:coal, See also:fire-See also:clay and moulding See also:sand
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There are various manufactures in the city
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Litchfield was incorporated as a See also:town in 1856, and was first chartered as a city in 1859
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