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WABASH

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 224 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WABASH , a city and the county-seat of Wabash county, Indiana, U.S.A., about 42 M. S.W. of Fort Wayne. Pop. (1890) 5105, (1900) 8618, of whom 498 were foreign-born and 134 negroes; (19'o U.S. census) 8687. It is served by the
Cleveland
 , Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis railway (which has extensive shops here), by the Wabash railway, and by interurban electric lines. It has a public library, a Memorial
Hall
  (1897), erected to the memory of Federal soldiers in the Civil War and occupied by the local " camp " of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Masonic temple, a county
hospital
 
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and two parks. The city is in a fertile agricultural region, and has a considerable
trade
  in
grain
  and produce. Among its manufactures are furniture, agricultural implements and foundry and
machine
 -shop products. In 1905 the factory products were valued at $2,202,932 (31.2 % more than in 1900). Wabash was settled about 1834, incorporated as a
village
  in 1854, and first chartered as a city in 1866. It was one of the first cities in the world to be lighted with electricity, a lighting plant being established in February 1880.


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