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Encyclopedia Britannica



RICH HILL

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 306 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
RICH HILL , a city of
Bates
  county, Missouri, U.S.A., situated near the Osage (Marais des Cygnes) river, in the west central
part
  of the state, about 75 M. S. by E. of Kansas City. Pop. (1900) 4053, of whom 255 were foreign-born; (191o) 2755. It is served by the Missouri Pacific and the St. Louis & San Francisco railway systems. The city has two public parks, and is a trading centre for the surrounding fertile farming country. Coal is
mined
  in the vicinity. There are lead and zinc smelters, and a large vitrified brick and tile factory. The municipality owns and operates its waterworks and gas and electric-
lighting
 
plants
 ; the city is supplied with natural gas. The
original
 
Rich
  Hill was platted in 1867 somewhat north-west of the site of the present city, which was platted in 188o by an association that bought out the old
settlement
 . The new
settlement
  was incorporated as a
village
  in ,88o, and chartered as a city in 1881.


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