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

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