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HUNTINGTON

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 954 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HOR-I25
HUNTINGTON , a city and the county-seat of Cabell county, West Virginia. U.S.A., about 50 M. W. of Charleston, W. Va., on the S. bank of the
Ohio
  river, just below the mouth of the Guyandotte river. Pop. (1900) 11,923, of whom 1212 were negroes ; (1910
census
 ) 31,161. It is served by the
Baltimore
  &
Ohio
  and the Chesapeake & Ohio railways, and by several lines of river steamboats. The city is the seat of Marshall College (founded in 1837; a State Normal School in 1867), which in 1907-1008 had 34 instructors and Imo students; and of the West Virginia State Asylum for the Incurable Insane; and it has a
Carnegie
  library and a city
hospital
 
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. Huntington has extensive railway car and repair shops, besides foundries and
machine
  shops. steel
rolling
  mills, manufactories of stoves and ranges, breweries and glass works. The value of the city's factory product in 1905 was $4,407,153, an increase of 21% over that of 1900. .Huntington
dates
  from 1871, when it became the western terminus of the Chesapeake & Ohio railway, was named in honour of Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900), the president of the road, and was incorporated.


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