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Bismarck
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or the capital of North Dakota, U.S.A., the countyseat of Burleigh county, on the E. bank of the Missouri river, in the S. central part of the state. Pop. (1890) 2186; (1900) 3319, of whom 746 were foreign-born; (1905, state census) 4913. It is on the main line of the Northern Pacific, and on the Minneapolis, St Paul & Sault Ste Marie railways; and steamboats run from here to Mannhaven, Mercer county, and Fort Yates, Morton county. The city is about 1650 ft. above sea-level. It contains the state capitol, the state penitentiary, a U.S. land office, a U.S. surveyor-general's office, a U.S. Indian school and a U.S. weather station; about a mile S. of the city is Fort Lincoln, a United States army post. Bismarck is the headquarters for navigation of the upper Missouri river, is situated in a good agricultural region, and has a large wholesale trade, shipping grain, hides, furs, wool and coal. It was founded in 1873, and was chartered as a city in 1876; from 1883 to 1889 it was the capital of Dakota Territory, on the division of which it became the capital of North Dakota.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Bismarck'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/bismarck.html. 1910.
