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IRONTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 838 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Lawrence county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on the Ohio See also:river, about 142 M. E.S.E. of See also:Cincinnati. Pop. (1890) 10,939; (1900) 11,868, of whom 924 were negroes and 714 See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 13,147. It is served by the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Cincinnati, See also:Hamilton and See also:Dayton, the See also:Norfolk and Western, and the See also:Detroit, See also:Toledo and Ironton See also:railways, and by river steamboats. The city is built on a See also:plain at the See also:base of hills rising from the river bottom and abounding in See also:iron ore and bituminous See also:coal; See also:fire and pottery See also:clay also occur in the vicinity. Besides See also:mining, Ironton has important See also:lumber interests, considerable river See also:traffic, and numerous manufactures, among which are iron, See also:wire, nails, machinery, stoves, fire-See also:brick, pressed brick, terra-See also:cotta, See also:cement, carriages and wagons, and See also:furniture. The See also:total value of its factory product in 1905 was $4,755,304; in 1900, $5,410,528. The See also:municipality owns and operates its See also:water-See also:works. Ironton was first settled in 1848, and in 1851 was incorporated.

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