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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 910 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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STEVENS POINT , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of See also:

PORTAGE

Portage county, See also:

Wisconsin, U.S.A., on both See also:

banks of the Wisconsin See also:

RIVER

river, about 110 m. N. of See also:

Madison. Pop. (189o), 7896; (1900), 9524, of whom 2205 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1910 U.S. See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census), 8692. Stevens Point is served by the See also:

Green See also:

BAY

Bay & Western and the Minneapolis, St See also:

Paul & Sault Ste See also:

MARIE

Marie See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. It is attractively situated, has a See also:

FINE

fine public school See also:

SYSTEM

system, including a high school, a See also:

MANUAL

manual training school, a domestic See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department, and See also:

KINDERGARTEN

kindergarten and See also:

day See also:

SCHOOLS

schools for the See also:

DEAF

deaf. It is the seat of one of the See also:

state normal schools (1894), of St See also:

Joseph's See also:

Academy (See also:

POLISH

Polish), and of the Stevens Point Commercial See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, and has a See also:

Carnegie library (1904), the Portage county See also:

court-See also:

house, a city See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital, and a See also:

TUBERCULOSIS

tuberculosis See also:

SANATORIUM (a modern Latinism, formed from sanare, to cure, restore to health, sanus, whole, healthy, well; often wrongly spelled sanatarium or sanitarium)

sanatorium. The city is situated in the See also:

BORDERS, THE

borders of the See also:

PINE (Lat. Pinus, Gr. srlrur)

pine See also:

TIMBER

timber region, and the See also:

LUMBER

lumber See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry predominates. There are railway repair shops here, and various manufactures. The city has a considerable wholesale jobbing See also:

trade, and is an important point of shipment for the products of the agricultural See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country in the vicinity. Stevens Point was first settled by See also:

George Stevens in 1839, was incorporated as a See also:

VILLAGE

village in 1847, and was first chartered as a city in 1858.

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