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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 826 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PLATTSMOUTH , 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:

CASS, LEWIS (1782–1866)

Cass county, See also:

NEBRASKA

Nebraska, U.S.A., situated in the valley and on the bluffs of the See also:

MISSOURI

Missouri See also:

RIVER

river near the mouth of the See also:

PLATTE (so named, from the• French, because of its shallowness), or NEBRASKA

Platte. Pop. (1900), 4964 (979 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born); (1910) 4287. It is served by the See also:

Chicago, See also:

BURLINGTON

Burlington & See also:

Quincy, and the Missouri Pacific railway systems. There are railway See also:

CAR (Late Lat. carra)

car-shops, and a considerable See also:

trade is done in See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain and See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle. A trading-See also:

POST

post licensed by the See also:

UNITED

United States See also:

government was opened here in 1853, and a See also:

TOWN

town platted in 18J4. Plattsmouth was first incorporated as a city in 1855, being one of the See also:

OLDEST

oldest settlements and cities of the See also:

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