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Encyclopedia Britannica



CRESTON

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 414 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
CRESTON , a city and the county-seat of
Union
  county, Iowa, U.S.A., about 6o M. S.W. of Des Moines, at the
crossing
  of the
main
  line and two branches of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy
  railway. Pop. (189o) 7200; (1900) 7752; (1905, state
census
 ) 8382 (753 foreign-born); (r91o) 6924. The city is on the
crest
  of the
divide
  between the
Mississippi
  and the Missouri basins at an altitude of about 1310 ft.whence its name. It is situated in a fine farming and stock-raising region, for which it is a shipping point. The site was chosen in 1869 by the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad
Company
  (subsequently merged in the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy
  Railroad
Company
 ) for the location of its shops. Creston was incorporated as a town in x869, and was chartered as a city in 187r.


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