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WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 353 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)  , a city and the county-seat of Fayette county,
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Ohio, U.S.A., on Paint Creek, 35 M . S.E. of
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Springfield . Pop . (188o) 3798, (189o) J742, (1900) 5751 (708 negroes); (1910) 7277 . It is served by the Baltimore & Ohio, the
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Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley (Pennsylvania Lines), the
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Detroit, Toledo &
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Ironton, and the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
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Dayton
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railways . It is in a rich farming and stock and poultry-raising region, has a large poultry-packing house and various manufactures . Washington, or Washington Court House as it is often called to distinguish it from the
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village of Washington in Guernsey county, Ohio, was laid out in 1810 and was chartered as a city in 1888 .

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