Carthage
city and county-seat of Jasper co., Mo., on the St. Louis and San Francisco, and the Missouri Pacific railroads, 300 miles S. W. of St. Louis. It is the center of an extensive lead region, and has zinc mines, stone and lime works, flour mills, machine shops and foundries, churches, public library, parks, electric railways and light, National banks, several daily and weekly newspapers, public schools, etc. Carthage was the scene of a battle, fought July 5, 1861, between a Federal army under General Sigel, and Confederates under Generals Parsons and Rains, in which the former was defeated. Pop. (1910) 9,483; (1920) 10,068. a