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Encyclopedia Britannica



MCALESTER

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 191 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MCALESTER , a city and the county-seat of Pittsburg county, Oklahoma, about 110 m. E.S.E. of
Guthrie
 . Pop. (19oo), 3479; (1907) 8144 (1681 negroes and 105 Indians); (1910) 12,954. McAlester is served by the Chicago,
Rock
 
Island
  & Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas
  railways and is an important railway junction; it is connected with the neighbouring mining
district
  by an electric line. There are undeveloped iron deposits and
rich
  coal-mines in the surrounding country, and
coke
 -making is the
principal
  manufacturing industry of the city. There is a fine Scottish Rite Masons' consistory and temple in McAlester. The city owns its waterworks. The vicinity was first settled in 1885. The city of
South
  McAlester was incorporated'in 1899, and in 1906 it annexed the town of McAlester and adopted its name.


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