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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 815 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city of Pottawatomie See also:county, See also:Oklahoma, U.S.A., on the See also:North See also:Fork of the See also:Canadian See also:river, about 38 m. E.S.E. of Oklahoma city. Pop. (1907) 10,955, including 748 negroes and 20 See also:Indians; (1910) 12,474. Shawnee is served by the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe, the See also:Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific,, arid. the See also:Missouri, See also:Kansas & See also:Texas See also:railways and by interurban electric lines. The city has two large public parks and a See also:Carnegie library, and is the seat of the Curtice See also:Industrial School. Shawnee is situated in a See also:fine agricultural region, is a See also:shipping-point for See also:alfalfa, See also:cotton and potatoes, is an important See also:market for mules, and has large railway repair shops, and cotton-gins and cotton compresses; among its manufactures are cotton-See also:seed oil, cotton goods, See also:lumber, bricks and See also:flour. Shawnee was first settled in 1895 and was chartered as a city in 1896.

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