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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 686 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HOPKINSVILLE , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of See also:

Christian county, See also:

KENTUCKY

Kentucky, U.S.A., about 15o m. S.W. of See also:

LOUISVILLE

Louisville. Pop. (1890) 5833; (1900) 7280 (3243 negroes); (1910) 9419. The city is served by the See also:

ILLINOIS

Illinois Central and the Louisville & See also:

NASHVILLE

Nashville See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. It is the seat of See also:

BETHEL (Heb. " House of God ")

Bethel See also:

FEMALE

Female See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College (Baptist, founded 1854), of See also:

South Kentucky College (Christian; co-educational; chartered 1849) and of the Western Kentucky See also:

Asylum for the Insane. The city's See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

INTEREST

interest is in the See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry; it has also considerable See also:

trade in other agricultural products and in See also:

COAL

coal; and its manufactures include carriages and wagons, bricks, See also:

lime, See also:

FLOUR

flour and dressed See also:

LUMBER

lumber. When Christian county was formed from See also:

Logan county in 1797, Hopkinsville, formerly called Elizabethtown, became the county-seat, and was renamed in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

SAMUEL

Samuel See also:

Hopkins (c. 1750-1819), an officer of the See also:

CONTINENTAL

Continental See also:

Army in the See also:

War of See also:

Independence, a See also:

PIONEER

pioneer settler in Kentucky, and a representative in See also:

CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress from Kentucky in 1813-1815. In 1798 Hopkinsville was incorporated.

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