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LAKE GENEVA

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 94 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAKE See also:GENEVA , a See also:city of See also:Walworth See also:county, See also:Wisconsin, U.S.A., 65 m. N.W. of See also:Chicago. Pop. (1900) 2585, of whom 468 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905) 3449; (1910) 3079. It is served by the Chicago & Northwestern railway. the city is picturesquely situated on the shores of Lake Geneva (9 m. See also:long and 1Z to 3 M. wide), a beautiful See also:body of remarkably clear See also:water, fed by springs, and encircled by See also:rolling hills covered with thick groves cf hardwood trees. The region is famous as a summer resort, particularly for Chicago See also:people. The city is the seat of Oakwood Sanitarium, and at See also:Williams See also:Bay, 6 m. distant, is the See also:Yerkes See also:Observatory of the University of Chicago. Dairying is the most important See also:industrial See also:interest. The first See also:settlement on Lake Geneva was made about 1833. The city was chartered in 1893.

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