Decatur
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- Names
Decatur
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on a bend in the Sangamon river; founded as county seat in 1829; famous as one of Abraham Lincoln's homes; economy is largely based on surrounding agricultural area.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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