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Encyclopedia Britannica



WAUKESHA

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 423 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WAUKESHA , a city and the county-seat of Waukesha county, Wisconsin, U.S.A., about 19 M. W. of Milwaukee on the Little Fox river. Pop. (1890) 6321; (1900) 7419, including 1408 foreign-born; (1905 state census) 6049; (1910) 8740. Waukesha is served by the Minneapolis, St Paul & Sault Ste Marie, the Chicago & North-Western and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railways, and by interurban electric railways connecting it with Milwaukee, Oconomowoc and Madison. The medicinal
mineral
  springs (Bethesda, White Rock, &c.) are widely known. Among the public buildings are the county court
house
  and the public library. Waukesha is the seat of the State Industrial School for Boys (established as a
house
  of
refuge
  in 186o) and of
Carroll
  College (Presbyterian, co-educational, 1846). Waukesha was first settled in 1834, was named Prairieville in 1839, was incorporated as a
village
  under its present name (said to be a Pottawatomi word meaning " fox ") in 1852, and chartered as a city in 1896. In 1851 the first railway in the state was completed between Milwaukee and Waukesha, but the
village
  remained only a farming community until the exploitation of the
mineral
  springs was begun about 1868. About 15 M. S. of Waukesha, near Mukwonago (pop. in 1gio, 615), in 18441845, there was an unsuccessful communistic agricultural settlement, the Utilitarian Association, composed largely of London mechanics led by Campbell
Smith
 , a London bookbinder.


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