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AMERICUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 849 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMERICUS , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Sumter county, See also:Georgia, U.S.A., about 71 M. S.S.W. of See also:Macon. Pop. (1880) 3635; (1890) 6398; (1900) 7694 (4661 of See also:negro descent); (1910) 8063. It is served by the Central of Georgia and the Seaboard See also:Air See also:Line See also:railways, and is the seat of the Third Congressional See also:District Agricultural High School, a See also:branch of the See also:state university of Georgia. The city is in a See also:rich See also:sugar-See also:cane and See also:fruit See also:country, is a large See also:cotton and See also:mule and See also:horse See also:market, and has See also:division shops of the Seaboard Air Line railway.' Among the city's manufactures are cotton-See also:seed oil, fertilizers, chemicals, See also:iron, carriages and wagons and See also:harness (especially horse collars). The city owns the waterworks; the See also:water-See also:supply is I The burning of See also:Washington was an See also:act of vandalism by ho means approved of by many of the See also:British See also:officers who were compelled to take See also:part in it. (See See also:SMITH. See also:Sir See also:HENRY See also:GEORGE WA&ELYN.) - S49 obtained from artesian See also:wells.

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