the county-seat of McCracken co., 80 mi. s. w. of Evansville, Ind., at the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee rivers, on the Illinois Central and the Nashville, Chattanooga & Saint Louis railroads. The city is in an agricultural, lumbering and mining region and contains over fifty factories. The principal products are cotton rope, tobacco, veneering and other lumber products, wagons, pottery, flour and various other articles. It has railroad shops, and steamboats are also constructed. There are good shipping facilities, both by rail and water, and the city has a very extensive wholesale trade in tobacco, groceries, whisky, queensware, drugs and other goods. There are more than a score of churches, five banks, a business college, Saint Mary's Academy and four newspapers. The principal structures include a fine high school building, a large city hall, a Federal building, a county courthouse and a public library. The place was settled in 1827 and was chartered as a city in 1856. Population in 1910, 22,760.