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NEVADA (MO.) - LoveToKnow Article on NEVADA (MO.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Nevada is the seat of Cottey College for girls (Methodist-Episcopal, South, 1884) and of a state hospital for the insane, and there is a state camp ground for the National Guard of Missouri. |
 | | Nevada is a trading centre for the surrounding country, and a fine farming and stock-raising region, in which Indian corn, oats, wheat, clover, timothy and blue-grass are grown; coal is mined in the vicinity. |
 | | Nevada (" Nevada City " until 1869) was platted in 1853, was burned down in 1863 during the occupancy by the state militia in war time, was incorporated as a town in 1869, was entered by the first railway in 1870, and was chartered as a city in 1880. |
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