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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 133 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FAIRMONT , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Marion county, See also:West See also:Virginia, U.S.A., on both sides of the See also:Monongahela See also:river, about 75 in. S.E. of See also:Wheeling. Pop. (189o) 1023; (1900) 5655, of whom 283 were negroes and 182 See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910) 9711. It is served by the See also:Baltimore & See also:Ohio railway. Among its manufactures are See also:glass, machinery, See also:flour and See also:furniture, and it is an important See also:shipping point for See also:coal See also:mined in the vicinity. The city is the seat of one of the West Virginia See also:state normal See also:schools. Fairmont was laid out as See also:Middletown in 1819, became the county-seat of the newly established Marion county in 1842, received its See also:present name about 1844, and was chartered as a city in 1899.

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