Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Madison (Ind.)

MADISON, a city and county-seat of Jefferson co., Ind.; on the Ohio river, and on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis railroad; 45 miles N. of Louisville, Ky. The city has steamboat connection with various places on the Kentucky, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers. It contains a public library, electric lights, National banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers, and the Southeastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, and has many manufactories, ship lumber yards, shipyards, and cotton and woolen mills. Pop. (1910) 6,934; (1920) 6,711.