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Encyclopedia Britannica



BELLEVILLE

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 699 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BELLEVILLE , a city and the county-seat of St Clair county, Illinois, U.S.A., in the S.W.
part
  of the state 14 M. S.E. of St Louis, Missouri. Pop. (09o) 15,361; (1900) 17,484, of whom 2750 were foreign-born; (1910) 21,122. Belleville is served by the Illinois Central, the Louisville & Nashville, and the Southern railways, also by extensive interurban electric systems; and a belt line to O'Fallon, Illinois, connects Belleville with the
Baltimore
  &
Ohio
 
South
  Western railway. A large
element
  of the population is of German descent or German
birth
 , and two
newspapers
  are published in German, besides three dailies, three weeklies and a semi-weekly in English. Among the industrial establishments of the city are stove and range factories, flour mills,
rolling
  mills, distilleries, breweries, shoe factories, copper refining works, nail and tack factories, glass works and agricultural implement factories. The value of the city's factory products increased from $2,873,334 in 1900 to $4,356,615 in 1905 or 51.6 %. Belleville is in a
rich
  agricultural region, and in the vicinity there are valuable coal mines, the first of which was sunk in 1852; from this
dates
  the industrial development of the city. Belleville was first settled in 1813, was incorporated as a city in 185o, and was re-incorporated in 1876.


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