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Goshen

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Goshen

Town and administrative headquarters of Elkhart County, north Indiana; population (1990) 23,700. It is situated on the Elkhart River, 16 km/20 mi southeast of Elkhart and 48 km/30 mi southeast of South Bend. It serves as a market town for an agricultural region; livestock, dairy products, poultry, grain, soybeans, and timber are traded. Industries include steel, rubber, electrical, and building products. The town has a large population of Mennonites (a Protestant sect), and is home to the Mennonite-sponsored Goshen College (1894).



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One day, in the sick chamber of Father Ephraim, who had been forty years the presiding elder over the Shaker settlement at Goshen, there was an assemblage of several of the chief men of the sect.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
It's a bleak and barren country there, not like this land of Goshen you've been used to.
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