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CHERRYVALE

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 85 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHERRYVALE , a See also:

city of See also:Montgomery See also:county, See also:Kansas, U.S.A., about 140 M. S.S.E. of Kansas City. Pop. (189o) 2104; (1900) 3472, including 18o negroes; (1905, See also:state See also:census) 5089; (1910) 4304. It is served by the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe, and the See also:main See also:line and a See also:branch (of which it is a See also:terminus) of the St See also:Louis & See also:San Francisco See also:railways. It is in a farming See also:district and in the Kansas natural-See also:gas and oil-See also:field, and has large See also:zinc smelters, an oil refinery, and various manufactures, including vitrified See also:brick, See also:flour, See also:glass, See also:cement and ploughs. Cherryvale was laid out in 1871 by the Kansas City, See also:Lawrence & See also:South Kansas Railway See also:Company (later absorbed by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe). The main See also:part of the See also:town was destroyed by See also:fire in 1873, but was soon rebuilt, and in 188o Cherryvale became a city of the third and afterwards of the second class. Natural gas, which is used as a factory See also:fuel and for See also:street and domestic See also:lighting, was found here in 1889, and oil several years later.

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