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RACINE , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Racine county, See also:Wisconsin, U.S.A., on the W. See also:shore of See also:Lake See also:Michigan at the mouth of the See also:Root See also:river, about 25 M. S.S.E. of See also:Milwaukee and about 6o m. N. of See also:Chicago. Pop. (1890) 21,014; (1900) 29,102, of whom 9242 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 38,002. Racine is served by the Chicago & See also:North Western and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St See also:Paul See also:railways, by two inter-See also:urban electric railways, connecting with Milwaukee and Chicago, and by steamboat lines. The river has been deepened and its mouth protected by breakwaters, providing an excellent See also:harbour; in 1909 vessels See also:drawing 19 ft. could pass through the channel. Among the public buildings are the City See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, the County See also:Court See also:House, the Federal See also:Building, the See also:Carnegie Library, the High School, two hospitals and the See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor See also:Orphan See also:Asylum (1872). Among educational institutions, besides the public See also:schools, are Racine See also:College (See also:Protestant Episcopal, 1853), St See also:Catherine's See also:Academy (See also:Roman See also:Catholic) and two business colleges. Racine is, next to Milwaukee, the most important manufacturing centre in Wisconsin. The value of its factory products in 1905 was $16,458,965, an increase of 41% over that of 1900. Of this, $5,177,079 (or 31.5% of the city's See also:total) represented agricultural implements and machinery. Carriages and wagons ($2,729,311) and automobiles ranked -next in importance.
Racine was the See also:French See also:form of the name of the Root river. The first Europeans positively known to have visited the site of Racine were See also:Vincennes, Tonty and several Jesuit missionaries, who stopped here for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time on their way down the See also:coast in 1699. See also:Early in the 19th See also:century Jambeau, a French trader, established himself on the Root river, and in 1834 See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert Knapp (1798-1889), who had been a lake See also:captain since 1818, induced several residents of Chicago to make their homes at its mouth. The See also:place was at first called See also:Port Gilbert. The See also:settlement See also:grew rapidly, a sawmill was built in 1835, and the See also:present name was adopted in 1837. In 1841 Racine was incorporated as a See also:village and in 1848 was chartered as a city.
See S. S. Hurlburt, Early Days at Racine (Racine, 1872) ; See also:History of Racine and See also:Kenosha Counties. (Chicago, 1879).
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