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Encyclopedia Britannica



WATERTOWN

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 411 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WATERTOWN , a city of Dodge and Jefferson counties, Wisconsin, U.S.A., on both banks of the Rock river, about 45 M. W.N.W. of Milwaukee. Pop. (1890) 8755; (1900) 8437, including 2447 foreign-born; (1905, state census) 8623; (1910) 8829. Water-town is served by the Chicago & North-Western and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railways, and by an interurban electric line, connecting with Milwaukee. It is the seat of North-western University (,865; Lutheran), which includes collegiate, preparatory and academic departments, and had in 19081909 11 instructors and 283 students, and of the Sacred Heart College (Roman Catholic, opened in 1872 and chartered in 1874), under the Congregation of the Holy Cross. There are also a
Carnegie
  library, a Lutheran Home for the Feeble-Minded, and a City
Hospital
 
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. The Rock river furnishes water-power which is utilized for manufacturing. The value of the factory product in 1905 was $2,065,487. The city is situated in a dairying and farming region. The municipality owns and operates its water-works. Watertown was founded about 1836 by settlers who gave it the name of their former home, Watertown, New
York
 . Afterwards there was a
great
  influx of Germans, particularly after the Revolution of 1848, among them being Carl Schurz, who began the practice of law here. Germans by
birth
  or descent still constitute a majority of the population. Watertown was incorporated as a
village
  in 1849, and was chartered as a city in 1853.


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