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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 191 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MCALESTER  , a

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city and the
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county-seat of
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Pittsburg county,
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Oklahoma, about 110 m . E.S.E. of
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Guthrie . Pop . (19oo), 3479; (1907) 8144 (1681 negroes and 105
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Indians); (1910) 12,954 . McAlester is served by the
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Chicago,
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Rock
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Island & Pacific and the
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Missouri,
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Kansas &
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Texas
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railways and is an important railway junction; it is connected with the neighbouring
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mining
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district by an electric
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line . There are undeveloped
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iron deposits and
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rich
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coal-mines in the surrounding
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country, and
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coke-making is the
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principal manufacturing
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industry of the city . There is a
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fine Scottish Rite Masons'
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consistory and
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temple in McAlester . The city owns its waterworks . The vicinity was first settled in 1885 . The city of
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South McAlester was incorporated'in 1899, and in 1906 it annexed the
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town of McAlester and adopted its name .

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