MURPHYSBORO

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MURPHYSBORO , a city and the county-seat of Jackson county,

Illinois

ILLINOIS

, U.S.A., in the

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

part

PART

of the state, on the Big Muddy River, about 57 M. N. of Cairo. Pop. (189o), 388o; (1900), 6463, including 557 foreign-born and 456 negroes; (1910), 7485. It is served by the IIlinois Central, the Mobile &

Ohio

OHIO

and the St Louis,

Iron

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

Mountain

MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical
mons
- MONS (Flemish
  Bergen
  - BERGEN
  )
, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

& Southern

railways

RAILWAYS

. It is the centre for a farming region, in which there are deposits of coal,

iron

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

, lead and shale, and there are various manufactures in the city. Murphysboro was incorporated in 1867, and re-incorporated in 1875.

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