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OLNEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 91 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OLNEY  , a

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city and the
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county-seat of Richland county,
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Illinois, U.S.A., about 30 M . W. of
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Vincennes,
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Indiana . Pop . 1(1890) 3831; (1900) 4260 (235
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foreign-
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born); (1910) 5011 . Olney is served by the
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Baltimore &
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Ohio
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South-western, the Illinois Central, and the
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Cincinnati,
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Hamilton &
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Dayton
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railways, and is a
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terminus of the Ohio
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River
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Division of the last . It has a
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Carnegie library and a city
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park of 55 acres . Olney is an important
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shipping point for the agricultural products of this
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district; oil is found in the vicinity; and the city has various manufactures . The
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municipality owns its
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water-
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works . Olney was settled about 1842 and was first chartered as a city in 1867 .

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