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Mattoon

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Mattoon (măt'n`), city (1990 pop. 18,441), Coles co., E central Ill.; inc. 1859. It is a processing, rail, and industrial center for a farming region. Among its manufactures are paper products, electrical and fire-prevention equipment, machinery, and signs. Nearby are many oil wells, a fish hatchery, and Lake Mattoon. The farm and grave of Abraham Lincoln's father and stepmother are southeast of the city.
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Among Fritts Fertilizer's new customers last fall were Chris Annis and his father, Dale, who farm near Mattoon.
Bright Days for Strip-Till by Smith, Darrell / Farm Journal
Besides Helena, Mattoon is safe and he has his friends.
Leitch, Will. Catch by Squicciarini, Stephanie / Kliatt
Nicolaides' discussion of the Mattoon Act, a special property assessment enacted by California in 1925, provides a vivid illustration of how the financial ruin brought on many working-class homeowners during the Great Depression shaped their subsequent attitudes towards property taxation.
Suburbia reconsidered: race, politics, and property in the twentieth ... by O'Mara, Margaret Pugh / Journal of Social History
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