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Dothan

City and administrative headquarters of Houston County, southeast Alabama, 155 km/96 mi southeast of Montgomery; population (2000) 57,700. It is an agricultural and livestock marketing centre; industries include food packing and processing, and the manufacture of hosiery, clothing, furniture, fertilizer, cigars, and toys.

Dothan was first settled in 1858 and incorporated in in 1885. The National Peanut Festival is held here every October. Dothan is home to a branch of Troy State University and to a community college. The Joseph M. Farley nuclear power plant (1977) is 26 km/16 mi to the east-northeast, near the Chattahoochee River.



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A more authentic tradition, aided by the geography of the country, places the pit in Dothan, some two days' journey from here.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Not that more glorious, when the Angels met JACOB in MAHANAIM, where he saw The field Pavilion'd with his Guardians bright; Nor that which on the flaming Mount appeerd In DOTHAN, cover'd with a Camp of Fire, Against the SYRIAN King, who to surprize One man, Assassin-like had levied Warr, Warr unproclam'd.
Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context
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