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Encyclopedia Britannica



WATERLOO

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 371 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WATERLOO , a city and the county-seat of Black Hawk county, Iowa, U.S.A., on the
Cedar
  river, about 90 m. W. of Dubuque and about 275 M. W. of Chicago. Pop. (1890) 6674; (1900) 12,580, of whom 1334 were foreign-born; (1910
census
 ) 26,693. It is served by the
Illinois
  Central (which has large construction and repair shops here), the Chicago,
Rock
 
Island
  & Pacific, the Chicago
Great
  Western, and the Waterloo,
Cedar
  Falls & Northern (from Cedar Falls to Sumner) railways. The city has several public parks, a public library (1879) with twobuildings, a Y.M.C.A. building, and a good public school
system
 , including a
manual
  training school. There is a Chautauqua park. The river here is 700 to 900 ft. wide; its. clear water flows over a limestone bed through a rather evenly sloping valley in the middle of the city with enough fall to furnish valuable water power. The value of the factory product in 1905 was $4,693,888. The city is situated in a
rich
  agricultural, dairying and poultry-raising region, and is an important shipping point. Waterloo was first settled about 1846, was laid out in 1854, first chartered as a city in 1868, and became a city of the first class in 1905.


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