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Encyclopedia Britannica



MACOMB

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 266 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
MACOMB , a
city
  and the county-seat of McDonough county,
Illinois
 , U.S.A., in the W.
part
  of the state, about 6o m. S.W. of Peoria. Pop. (1890), 4052; (1900), 5375 (232
foreign
 -
born
 ); (1910), 5774. Macomb is served by the Chicago, Burlington - &
Quincy
 , and the Macomb & Western
Illinois
 
railways
 . The
city
  is the seat of the Western Illinois state normal school (opened in 1902), and has a
Carnegie
  library and a city park.
Clay
  is found in the vicinity, and there are manufactures of pottery, bricks, &c. The city was founded in 1830 as the county-seat of McDonough county, and was called Washington by the settlers, but the charter of incorporation, also granted in 1830, gave it the present name in honour of General Alexander Macomb. Macomb was first chartered as a city in 1856.


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