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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 783 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LITCHFIELD , a See also:

city of See also:Montgomery See also:county, See also:Illinois, U. S. A., about 5o M. N.E. of St See also:Louis, See also:Missouri. Pop. (1900) 5918; (1910) 5971. Its See also:principal importance is as a railway and manufacturing centre; it is served by the See also:Chicago, See also:Burlington & See also:Quincy, the Chicago & See also:Alton, the See also:Cleveland, See also:Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, the Illinois Central, the See also:Wabash, and the Litchfield & See also:Madison See also:railways, and by electric lines connecting with St Louis and the neighbouring towns. In the vicinity are deposits of bituminous See also:coal, See also:fire-See also:clay and moulding See also:sand. There are various manufactures in the city. Litchfield was incorporated as a See also:town in 1856, and was first chartered as a city in 1859.

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