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| | Smith County Website |
 | | Smith County, named in honor of Major Nathan Smith, of the Second Colorado Cavalry, who was killed at the battle of the Blue, is on the northern tier of counties, bordering on Nebraska on the north, and is the sixth east of the Colorado and Kansas dividing lines. |
 | | Smith County was organized in 1872, with a population of 3,876. |
 | | The Smith County Pioneer, the oldest paper in the county, was started at Cedarville in November, 1872, by Dr.W. Jenkins, and was edited successively by Dr. Jenkins, Lew Plummer and Mark J. Kelley. |
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