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plant. By June 22, the fire had destroyed the vacant meat processing plant portion of the complex but was put out. Fire departments from three counties battled to control the fire, dealing with the unstable structure of the 100+-year-old building and the 95+-degree temperatures that occurred during
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As the Emge plant was starting to close, Toyota announced that it would be building a manufacturing facility on a patch of farmland located halfway between Fort Branch and nearby
Princeton. While most of the suppliers for the new Toyota plant are located closer to Princeton, most of the population
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the five-day period the fire burned. As of
February 2014, only the smokestack remains of the plant, with the remains being demolished along with the original water tower between September 2013 and January 2014. As of December 2014, there are no known plans for the future of the property.
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1609:Saint James
1535:communities
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1342:County seat
1283:January 23,
1047:January 31,
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1699:Categories
1644:Ghost town
1495:Washington
1475:Montgomery
1437:Somerville
1427:Owensville
986:References
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903:Emge Foods
893:Recently,
887:Owensville
870:Owensville
858:Emge Foods
738:As of the
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387:87°34′34″W
384:38°14′49″N
280:feature ID
184:Population
76:87°34′24″W
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1661:Footnotes
1624:Warrenton
1619:Snake Run
1603:Oatsville
1447:Townships
1412:Haubstadt
1407:Francisco
1367:Princeton
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866:Haubstadt
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1260:March 7,
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261:812, 930
244:ZIP code
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1614:Skelton
1553:Douglas
1548:Dongola
1523:Johnson
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1203:June 4,
1111:May 23,
880:Indiana
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1490:Wabash
1480:Patoka
1460:Center
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1432:Patoka
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1359:Cities
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740:census
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1533:Other
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651:19.4%
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232:UTC-5
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141:Union
112:State
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1285:2013
1262:2018
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