Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Richmond (Indiana)

RICHMOND, a city and county-seat of Wayne co., Ind.; on the Whitewater river, and on the Chesapeake and Ohio of Indiana, the Grand Rapids and Indiana, the Ohio Electric, and the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis railroads; 69 miles E. of Indianapolis. The Friends have the institutions, Earlham College and Friends' Academy. The city is also the place of the Yearly Meeting of the Orthodox Friends of Indiana. It has electric street railroads, gas and electric lights, waterworks, State Hospital for the Insane, Reid Memorial Hospital, a high school, National and private banks, and a number of daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Richmond has many industries, including flour and lumber mills, and manufactories of clothing, paper bags, paper, pianos, tile, automobiles, office furniture, desks, church furniture, boilers, traction engines, steam engines, carriages and wagons, bicycles, lawn mowers, plows, threshing machines, grain drills, etc. The city was founded by a colony of Friends in 1815. Pop. (1910) 22,324; (1920) 26,765.