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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 371 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WATERLOO , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Black See also:Hawk county, See also:Iowa, U.S.A., on the See also:Cedar See also:river, about 90 m. W. of See also:Dubuque and about 275 M. W. of See also:Chicago. Pop. (1890) 6674; (1900) 12,580, of whom 1334 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 26,693. It is served by the See also:Illinois Central (which has large construction and repair shops here), the Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific, the Chicago See also:Great Western, and the Waterloo, Cedar Falls & See also:Northern (from Cedar Falls to See also:Sumner) See also:railways. The city has several public parks, a public library (1879) with twobuildings, a Y.M.C.A. See also:building, and a See also:good public school See also:system, including a See also:manual training school. There is a See also:Chautauqua See also:park. The river here is 700 to 900 ft. wide; its. clear See also:water flows over a See also:limestone See also:bed through a rather evenly sloping valley in the See also:middle of the city with enough fall to furnish valuable water See also:power. The value of the factory product in 1905 was $4,693,888. The city is situated in a See also:rich agricultural, dairying and poultry-raising region, and is an important See also:shipping point. Waterloo was first settled about 1846, was laid out in 1854, first chartered as a city in 1868, and became a city of the first class in 1905.

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