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MURPHYSBORO

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 38 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MURPHYSBORO  , a

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city and the
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county-seat of
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Jackson county,
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Illinois, U.S.A., in the
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south
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part of the
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state, on the Big Muddy
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River, about 57 M . N. of
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Cairo . Pop . (189o), 388o; (1900), 6463, including 557
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foreign-
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born and 456 negroes; (1910), 7485 . It is served by the IIlinois Central, the
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Mobile &
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Ohio and the St
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Louis,
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Iron
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Mountain &
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Southern
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railways . It is the centre for a farming region, in which there are deposits of
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coal, iron,
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lead and shale, and there are various manufactures in the city . Murphysboro was incorporated in 1867, and re-incorporated in 1875 .

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