Sedalia, capital of Pettis county, Missouri, 188 miles by rail W. of St. Louis. It has large railway-shops, flour-mills, and manufactures of woollens, machinery and agricultural implements, wagons, furniture, and soap. Pop. (1890) 14,068.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 298
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