Madison, Indiana, USA
1895 -Madison

Madison, a city of Indiana, the capital of Jefferson co., is pleasantly situated on the Ohio River, 88 miles be low Cincinnati, and 45 miles above Louisville. By railroad it is 86 miles S.S.E. of Indianapolis, and 45 miles S.E. of Columbus, Ind. Its site is a valley which is elevated above the highest floods, and is enclosed on the N. by steep hills nearly 400 feet high. The houses and business blocks are chiefly built of brick and stone, and the city is lighted by gas and electricity, Madison contains a handsome court house, about 15 churches, a public library, a high school, 2 national banks (with a capital of $600,000), a private bank, and printing-offices which issue 3 daily, 2 semi-weekly, and 3 weekly newspapers. This city contains several flouring mills and breweries, 1 cotton-mill, 2 woollen-mills, several large cooperage establishments, 2 starch-factories, 2 artificial-ice plants, and manufactories of hubs and spokes, sash and doors, paper, saddle-trees, furniture, engines, boilers, tacks, &c. Pop. (1890) 8936.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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