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CONNERSVILLE, a city of Indiana, U.S.A., on the west fork of White Water river, 5om. E.S. of Indianapolis; the county seat of Fayette county. It is served by the Baltimore and Ohio, the Big Four, and the Nickel Plate railways, and for freight also by the Erie. The population in 1920 was 9,901; 1930 it was 12, 795. It has had an export trade since the close of the Civil War, and its products go to all parts of the world. They include auto mobile bodies, tops, springs, lamps, trimmings, engines, pistons, transmission brakes, and complete automobiles; vacuum cleaners, coaster wagons, furniture, radio cabinets, flour, pork products, catalogues, and piano-tuning pins. The factory output in 1925 was valued at Connersville was named after John Conner, frontiersman and Indian trader, reared by the Indians, who in 1813 laid out the town. It received a city charter in 1869.

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