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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 515 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WELLSTON  , a

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city of
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Jackson
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county,
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Ohio, U.S.A., about 30 M . S.E. of
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Chillicothe . Pop . (188o) 952; (1890) 4377; (1900) 8045, of whom 311 were
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foreign-
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born; (1910
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census) 6875 .
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Land
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area (1906), 6.62 sq. m . Wellston is served by the
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Baltimore & Ohio
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South-western, the Hocking Valley, the
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Cincinnati,
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Hamilton &
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Dayton, and the
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Detroit,
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Toledo &
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Iron-ton
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railways, and is connected by an electric
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line with Jackson (pop. in 1910, 5468), the county-seat, about ro m . S.W . Immediately N. of the city is
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Lake
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Alma
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Park . Wellston is situated in a
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coal and iron
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mining
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country; among the city's manufactures are iron and
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cement, and in 1905 the value of the factory product was $1,384,295, 41.4% more than in 1900 . The
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municipality owns and operates its
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water-
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works and its electric
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lighting plant . Wellston (named in
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honour of
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Harvey
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Wells, its founder) was settled in 1871, and was chartered as a city in 1876 .

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