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Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana

a city of 30,000 pop., on Ohio River, 200 miles below Louisville, and at the terminus of the Evansville & Crawfordsville Railroad. The Wabash & Erie Canal terminates here, which, with the river commerce, makes it one of the most important commercial cities in the State. Considerable manufacturing is done here, and large quantities of of grain and pork are shipped to other markets.

New York. 1869.

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