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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Vernon county, See also:Missouri, U.S.A., in the See also:south-western See also:part of the See also:state, about 90 M. S. by E. of See also:Kansas City. Pop. (1900) 7461, of whom 235 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 168 negroes; (1910) 7176. It is served by the Missouri Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas & See also:Texas railway systems. The See also:principal public buildings are the county See also:court See also:house, the federal See also:building and the high school. Nevada is the seat of Cottey See also:College for girls (Methodist-Episcopal, South, 1884) and of a state See also:hospital for the insane, and there is a state See also:camp ground for the See also:National Guard of Missouri. There are three parks, one of which, See also:Lake See also:Park, is a See also:pleasure and See also:health resort, with a lake and chalybeate and See also:sulphur springs. The smelting of See also:lead and See also:zinc and the manufacture of See also:paper, See also:lumber, See also:sheet See also:metal and bricks are among the city's See also:industries. Nevada is a trading centre for the surrounding See also:country, and a See also:fine farming and stock-raising region, in which See also:Indian See also:corn, oats, See also:wheat, See also:clover, See also:timothy and See also:blue-grass are grown; See also:coal is See also:mined in the vicinity. The city's See also:water-See also:supply is See also:drawn from artesian See also:wells. Nevada (" Nevada City " until 1869) was platted in 1855, was burned down in 1863 during the occupancy by the state See also:militia in See also:war See also:time, was incorporated as a See also:town in 1869, was entered by the first railway in 187o, and was chartered as a city in 1880.

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