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Cherryvale
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or a city of Montgomery county, Kansas, U.S.A., about 140 m. S.S.E. of Kansas City. Pop. (1890) 2104; (1900) 347 2, of whom 180 were negroes; (1905, state census) 5089. It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and the main line and a branch (of which it is a terminus) of the St Louis & San Francisco railways. It is in a farming district and in the Kansas natural-gas and oil-field, and has large zinc smelters, an oil refinery, and various manufactures, including vitrified brick, flour, glass, cement and ploughs. Cherryvale was laid out in 1871 by the Kansas City, Lawrence & South Kansas Railway Company (later absorbed by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe). The main part of the town was destroyed by fire in 1873, but was soon rebuilt, and in 1880 Cherryvale became a city of the third and afterwards of the second class. Natural gas, which is used as a factory fuel and for street and domestic lighting, was found here in 1889, and oil several years later.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cherryvale'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/cherryvale.html. 1910.
