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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Washington Court House
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON Court House), a city and the county-seat of Fayette county, Ohio, U.S.A., on Paint Creek, 35'35 m. S.E. of Springfield. Pop. (1880) 379 8, (1890) 5742, (1900) 5751 (708 negroes); (1910) 7277. It is served by the Baltimore & Ohio, the Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley (Pennsylvania Lines), the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton 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 village of Washington in Guernsey county, Ohio, was laid out in 1810 and was chartered as a city in 1888.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Washington Court House'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​w/washington-court-house.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Washington Court House'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​w/washington-court-house.html. 1910.