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Encyclopedia Britannica



LAKE GENEVA

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 94 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
LAKE GENEVA , a city of Walworth county,
Wisconsin
 , U.S.A., 65 m. N.W. of Chicago. Pop. (1900) 2585, of whom 468 were foreign-born; (1905) 3449; (1910) 3079. It is served by the Chicago & Northwestern railway. the city is picturesquely situated on the shores of Lake Geneva (9 m.
long
  and 1Z to 3 M. wide), a beautiful
body
  of remarkably clear water, fed by springs, and encircled by
rolling
  hills covered with thick groves cf hardwood trees. The region is famous as a summer resort, particularly for Chicago
people
 . The city is the seat of Oakwood Sanitarium, and at Williams Bay, 6 m. distant, is the
Yerkes
 
Observatory
  of the University of Chicago. Dairying is the most important industrial
interest
 . The first
settlement
  on Lake Geneva was made about 1833. The city was chartered in 1893.


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