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Encyclopedia Britannica



STEVENS POINT

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 910 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
STEVENS POINT , a city and the county-seat of
Portage
  county, Wisconsin, U.S.A., on both banks of the Wisconsin river, about 110 m. N. of Madison. Pop. (189o), 7896; (1900), 9524, of whom 2205 were foreign-born; (1910 U.S. census), 8692. Stevens Point is served by the Green Bay & Western and the Minneapolis, St Paul & Sault Ste Marie railways. It is attractively situated, has a fine public school system, including a high school, a
manual
  training school, a domestic science department, and kindergarten and day schools for the deaf. It is the seat of one of the state normal schools (1894), of St Joseph's
Academy
  (Polish), and of the Stevens Point Commercial College, and has a
Carnegie
  library (1904), the
Portage
  county court-
house
 , a city
hospital
 
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, and a tuberculosis sanatorium. The city is situated in the borders of the pine timber region, and the lumber industry predominates. There are railway repair shops here, and various manufactures. The city has a considerable wholesale jobbing trade, and is an important point of shipment for the products of the agricultural country in the vicinity. Stevens Point was first settled by George Stevens in 1839, was incorporated as a
village
  in 1847, and was first chartered as a city in 1858.


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