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Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Shelbyville
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a city and the county-seat of Shelby county, Indiana, U.S.A., about 27 m. S.E. of Indianapolis, on the Big Blue river. Pop. (1890) 545 1; (1900) 7169, including 326 foreign-born; (1910) 9500. It is served by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis and the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis railways, and by an interurban electric line. It has a public library, a hospital and a children's home. The city is a trading centre for the surrounding farming region; among its manufactures furniture is the most important. Shelbyville, named in honour of General Isaac Shelby of Kentucky, was platted in 1822, incorporated as a town in 1850, and chartered as a city in 1860.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Shelbyville'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/shelbyville.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Shelbyville'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/shelbyville.html. 1910.
