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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 18 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HARRIMAN , a See also:

city of Roane See also:county, See also:Tennessee, U.S.A., on the Emory See also:river, about 35 M. W. by S. of See also:Knoxville. Pop. (1900) 3442 (5'6 being negroes) ; (1910) 3061. Harriman is served by the Harriman & See also:North Eastern, the Tennessee Central, and the See also:Southern See also:railways. It is the seat of the See also:East Tennessee Normal and See also:Industrial See also:Institute, for negroes, and of the See also:American University of Harriman (See also:Christian See also:Church, coeducational; 1893), which comprises See also:primary, preparatory, collegiate, See also:Bible school, civic See also:research, commercial, See also:music and See also:art departments, and in 1907—1908 had 12 instructors and 317 students. Near the city are large deposits of See also:iron and an abundance of See also:coal and See also:timber. Among manufactures are See also:cotton products, farming tools, See also:leather, tannic See also:acid, See also:furniture and See also:flour. Harriman was founded in '890 by a See also:land See also:company. A clause in this company's by-See also:laws requires that every See also:conveyance of real See also:estate by the company " shall contain a See also:provision forbidding the use of the See also:property or any See also:building thereon, for the purpose of making, storing or selling intoxicating beverages as such." Harriman was chartered as a city in '891, and its See also:charter was revised in 1899.

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