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History of Richmond, Indiana

Richmond (International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA: {{IPA|[ˈrɪtʃ.mənd]}}) is a city in east central Indiana, which borders Ohio. It is sometimes called the "cradle of recorded jazz" because some early jazz records originated there at the studio of Gennett Records, a division of the Starr Piano Company.Starr Gennett Foundation, http://starrgennett.org/, URL accessed May 29, 2006. Richmond is the county seat of Wayne County, Indiana|Wayne County. The city's 2000 population was 39,124. In the 1990s, Richmond's population declined by 1.6 percent.http://www.city-data.com/city/Richmond-Indiana.html


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