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TAYLOR

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 475 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TAYLOR  , a

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town in Williamson county,
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Texas, U.S.A., about 35 M . N.E. of Austin . Pop . (189o) 2584; (1900) 4211 (126o negroes); (1910) 5314 . It is served by the International &
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Great
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Northern and the
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Missouri, Kansas & Texas
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rail-ways . It is in a region especially devoted to the growing of cotton and grain and to poultry raising, and an
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annual county
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fair is held here . In the city are machine and car shops of the International & Great Northern railway, and cotton-compresses, and there are manufactures of cotton-seed oil, &c . Taylor, named in honour of Gen . Zachary Taylor, was founded in 1876, and was incorporated in 1882 .

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