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Vancouver (City and county-seat of Clarke)

a city and county-seat of Clarke co., Wash.; on the Columbia river; and on the Great Northern, the Union Pacific and other railroads; 6 miles N. of Portland, Ore. Here are St.

James College (R. C.), the State School for Deaf and Dumb, and the State School for Blind, Fort Vancouver, the headquarters of the Military Department of Columbia, one of the best equipped military posts W. of the Mississippi, National and State banks, and several weekly newspapers. The city has manufactures of lumber, sashes and doors, bricks, artificial stone, ice, etc. Pop. (1910) 9,300; (1920) 12,637.