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Bible Encyclopedias
Murphysboro
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a city and the county-seat of Jackson county, Illinois, U.S.A., in the south part of the state, on the Big Muddy River, about 57 m. N. of Cairo. Pop. (1890), 3880; (1900), 6463, of whom 557 were foreign-born and 456 were negroes. It is served by the Illinois Central, the Mobile & Ohio and the St Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern railways. It is the centre for a farming region, in which there are deposits of coal, iron, lead and shale, and there are various manufactures in the city. Murphysboro was incorporated in 1867, and reincorporated in 1875.
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Bibliography Information
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Murphysboro'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/murphysboro.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Murphysboro'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/murphysboro.html. 1910.
