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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 379 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARABOO , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of Sauk county, See also:Wisconsin, U.S.A., about 37 M. N.W. of See also:Madison, on the Baraboo See also:river, a tributary of the Wisconsin. Pop. (189o) 4605; (1900) 5751, of whom 732 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905) 5835; (1910) 6324. The city is served by the See also:Chicago & See also:North-Western railway, which maintains here an See also:engine See also:house and extensive See also:machine shops, and of which it is a See also:division headquarters. Baraboo has an attractive situation on a See also:series of hills about loon ft. above See also:sea-level. In the vicinity are See also:Devil's See also:Lake (3 M. S.) and the famous Dells of the Wisconsin river (near Kilbourn, about 12 M. N.), two summer resorts with picturesque scenery. The See also:principal public buildings are the See also:court-house (in a small public See also:park), the public library and a high school. Dairying and the growing of small fruits are important See also:industries in the surrounding region; and there is a large nursery here. See also:Stone quarried in the vicinity is exported, and the city is near the centre of the Sauk county See also:iron range.

Among the manufactures are woollen goods, towels, canned See also:

fruit and vegetables, See also:dairy products, See also:beer, and See also:circus wagons (the city is the headquarters of the Ringling and the Gollmar circuses). The first permanent See also:settlement here was made in 1839. Baraboo was named in See also:honour of See also:Jean Baribault, an See also:early See also:French trapper, and was chartered as a city in 1882.

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