The New International Encyclopædia/Salem (Illinois)

SALEM. A city and the county-seat of Marion County, Ill., 70 miles east of Saint Louis, Mo.; on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern and the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroads, and the terminus of the Illinois Southern (Map: Illinois, D 5). It is surrounded by a section noted for the production of apples, and engaged also in farming and stock-raising. There are coal deposits and mineral springs in the vicinity. Flour is the principal manufactured product. Population, in 1890, 1493; in 1900, 1642.