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Encyclopedia Britannica



ALBERT LEA

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 503 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALBERT LEA , a city and the county-seat of Freeborn county, Minnesota, U.S.A., about 97 M. S. of St Paul. Pop. (1890) 3305; (1900) 4500; (1905, state census) 5657, 1206 being foreign-born (461 Norwegians, 411 Danes, 98 Swedes); (1910, U. S. census) 6192. It is served by two branches of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, by the main line and one branch of the Chicago,
Rock
 
Island
  & Pacific, by the Illinois Central, by the Iowa Central, and by the Minneapolis & St Louis railways. It is attractively situated between Fountain Lake and Albert Lea Lake, and is a summer resort. It has a public library and the Freeborn County Court
House
 , and is the seat of Albert Lea College (Presbyterian, for women), founded in 1884, and of Luther
Academy
  (
Norwegian
  Evangelical Lutheran), founded in 1888. Albert Lea is a railway and manufacturing centre of considerable importance, has
grain
  elevators and foundries and machine shops, and manufactures bricks, tiles, carriages, wagons, flour, corsets, refrigerators and woollen goods. The city is also the centre of large dairy interests, and there are many creameries in the county. Numerous artesian wells furnish the city with an ample
supply
  of water of unusual excellence. Albert Lea was settled in 1855 and received a city charter in 1878. The city and the lake were named in honour of Lieutenant Albert Miller Lea (1808-1891), a West Point graduate (1831) who, on behalf of the United States government, first surveyed the region and described it in a report published in 1836. He was a lieutenant-colonel of engineers in the Con-federate army during the Civil War.


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