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MOUNT VERNON, 

a city and county-seat of Jefferson County, on three trunk lines of
railroad, 77 miles east-southeast of St. Louis; is the center of a rich
agricultural and coal region; has many flourishing manufactories, including
car-works, a plow factory, flouring mills, pressed brick factory, canning
factory, and is an important shipping-point for grain, vegetables and fruits.
The Appellate Court for the Southern Grand Division is held here, and the
city has nine churches, fine school buildings, a Carnegie library, two
banks, heating plant, two daily and three weekly papers. 
Population (1890), 3,233; (1900), 5,216

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