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Cedar Falls
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or A city of Black Hawk county, Iowa, U.S.A., on the Cedar river, about roo m. W. of Dubuque. Pop. (1890) 3459; (Igo()) 5319; (1905, state census) 5329, of whom 872 were foreign-born. It is served by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Illinois Central, the Chicago Great Western, and the Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern railways. Its manufactures include flour, ground feed, other cereal preparations, hardware specialties, canned vegetables (especially Indian corn), and planing-mill products. It is the seat of the state normal school (1876), and has a public library. The settlement of the place, the oldest in the county, was begun in 1847; it was laid out as a town in 1851, incorporated as a village in 1857, chartered as a city in 1865, and for a short time in 1853 was the county-seat.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cedar Falls'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/cedar-falls.html. 1910.
