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Encyclopedia Britannica



CRAWFORDSVILLE

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 387 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
CRAWFORDSVILLE , a city and the county-seat of Montgomery county, Indiana, U.S.A., situated about 40 M. N.W. of Indianapolis. Pop. (1890) 6089; (1900) 6649, including 230 negroes and 221 foreign-born; (191o) 9371. It is served by the Chicago, Indianapolis &
Louisville
 , the
Cleveland
 , Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, and the Vandalia railways, and by interurban electric lines.
Wabash
  College, founded here in 1832 by Presbyterian missionaries but now non-sectarian, had in 1908 27 instructors, 345 students, and a library of 43,000 volumes. Among manufactures are flour, iron, wagons and carriages, acetylene lights, wire and nails, matches, brick paving blocks, and
electrical
  machinery. North-
east
  of the city there are valuable
mineral
  springs, from which the city obtains its water-
supply
 . Crawfordsville, named in honour of W. H.
Crawford
 , was first settled about 182o, was laid out as a town in 1823, and was chartered as a city in 1863. It was for many years the
home
  of Gen. Lew
Wallace
 .


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