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FORT MADISON

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 725 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FLA-FRA
FORT MADISON , a city and the county-seat of Lee county, Iowa, U.S.A.; on the
Mississippi
  river, in the S.E. corner of the state, and about 20 m. S.W. of Burlington. Pop. (189o) 7901; (1900) 9278, of whom 1025 were
foreign
 -born; (1905) 8767; (1910) 8900. Fort
Madison
  is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (which has repair shops here) and the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy
 
railways
 . The city has various manufactures, including canned goods, chairs,
paper
  and farm implements; the value of its factory product in 1905 was $2,378,892, an increase of 50.8% over that of 1900. Fort
Madison
  is the seat of one of Iowa's penitentiaries. A stockade fort was erected on the site of the city in 18o8, but was burned in 1813. Permanently settled in 1833, Fort Madison was laid out as a town in 1836, and was chartered as a city in 1839.


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