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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 574 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city and the See also:county-seat of Pettis county, See also:Missouri, U.S.A., a little W. of the centre of the See also:state. Pop. (1900) 15,231; (1725negroes ;972 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 17,822. Sedalia is served by the Missouri Pacific and the Missouri, See also:Kansas & See also:Texas railway systems, and is a transportation centre with See also:good facilities. The city has a high and pleasant site (about 990 ft. above See also:sea-level) on a See also:rolling See also:prairie, and is laid out as an exact square. Among the public buildings much the handsomest are the See also:court See also:house, built of See also:Warrensburg See also:blue See also:sandstone (1884), and the Public Library (1900), given by See also:Andrew See also:Carnegie. Sedalia is the seat of the See also:George R. See also:Smith See also:College (M. E., founded in 1894) for negroes. See also:Liberty See also:Park (6o acres), in the W. See also:part of the city, is owned by the See also:municipality. Broadway, the See also:principal See also:residence See also:street, is 120 ft. wide, and is parked on either See also:side. The State See also:Board of See also:Agriculture established See also:fair grounds (now 210 acres) adjoining the city on the S.W. in 1900, and the See also:annual state fair attracts many visitors.

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water See also:supply is derived from a storage See also:lake on See also:Flat See also:Creek, 3 M. from the city, settling basins being used to clarify the water. There are a city See also:hospital and the Maywood, a private hospital; and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway maintains here a hospital for all parts of its See also:system. The surrounding See also:country is a magnificent livestock and farming region, and in the immediate vicinity are valuable deposits of See also:coal, of See also:limestone, of shale suitable for See also:sewer See also:pipe andof See also:fire See also:clays. The city has important See also:horse and See also:mule yards. The Missouri Pacific, three of whose operating divisions end at Sedalia and thus make the city its central See also:division point, in 1904 established large shops (129 acres) in a suburb E. of the city. These shops and those of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway, of which Sedalia is the central division point on the N. end of its system, add greatly to the See also:industrial importance of the city. The See also:total value of the factory product in 1905 was $1,691,727, showing an increase of 31,8% since 1900. Sedalia was established as a station on the Missouri Pacific railroad in 1857. In 1864 it was chartered as a See also:town and was made the county-seat, succeeding See also:Georgetown (then a flourishing town, which speedily See also:fell into decay), the See also:transfer of the offices taking See also:place in 1865. Sedalia was a See also:Union military See also:post through-out the See also:Civil See also:War; on the 15th of See also:October 1864 a detachment from See also:Sterling See also:Price's raiding See also:column dislodged a small Union force that was occupying the town, but the Confederate occupation lasted only one See also:day. Sedalia was chartered as a city in 1889. In 1896 a constitutional See also:amendment to remove the state See also:capital from See also:Jefferson City to Sedalia was defeated by popular See also:vote.

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