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SAO LEOPOLDO

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 198 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAO LEOPOLDO , a See also:

city of the See also:state of Rio Grande do Sul, See also:Brazil, on the See also:left See also:bank of the Rio dos Sinos, sod m. by See also:rail N. of See also:Porto Alegre. It is the See also:chief See also:town of a municipio (See also:commune) of the same name, having an See also:area of about 347 sq. m. and inhabited chiefly by See also:German colonists. Pop. (1900) of the city, 11,015; of the municipio, 32,600. Sao Leopoldo has See also:river and railway communication with Porto Alegre. It is a prosperous See also:industrial town, with broad straight streets and substantial buildings. It has See also:good See also:schools, and its See also:Jesuits' See also:college ranks high throughout See also:northern Rio Grande. Among its manufactures are matches, hats, boots and shoes, See also:soap, See also:liqueurs and artificial drinks, See also:leather and leather-See also:work and earthenware. In the sur-rounding districts See also:cattle and hogs are raised, and jerked See also:beef, hides, pork, See also:lard, potatoes, beans, farinha de mandioca (See also:cassava See also:flour), See also:Indian See also:corn, See also:tobacco and a See also:great variety of vegetables and fruits are produced. The city was originally a German See also:colony founded by the See also:emperor Pedro I. in 1824 and established at a See also:place known as the Feitoria Real de Canhamo (Royal See also:flat factory). The first colonists (26 families and 17 unmarried persons, or 126 souls) arrived on the 25th of See also:June 1825, and were followed a few months later by another party of 909 colonists. These were the first German colonists in Rio Grande do Sul.

Up to 1830 the arrivals numbered 3701, but the See also:

civil See also:war which See also:broke out in 1835 checked further arrivals and nearly ruined the colony, its inhabitants being forced to serve in the contending forces and their See also:property being seized. Sao Leopoldo was occupied by the revolutionists for some years and was practically ruined at the termination of the war in 1844. The introduction of colonists was immediately resumed, however, and the colony was soon as prosperous as ever. The See also:early colonists were engaged in See also:Germany by a representative of the Brazilian See also:government, and were given See also:free transportation, 130 acres of See also:land each, farming implements, seeds, and a See also:subsidy of 320 reis a See also:day for the first See also:year and See also:half that for the second year. Subsequent settlers received less, but the See also:system of assisting colonists and making contracts with companies and individuals for their introducton became the settled policy of the See also:national arid provincial governments.

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