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Creston

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a city and the county-seat of Union county, Iowa, U.S.A., about 60 m. S.W. of Des Moines, at the crossing of the main line and two branches of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway. Pop. (1890) 7200; (1900) 7752; (1 9 05, state census) 8382, of whom 753 were foreign-born. The city is on the crest of the divide between the Mississippi and the Missouri basins at an altitude of about 1310 ft. - whence its name. It is situated in a fine farming and stock-raising region, for which it is a shipping point. The site was chosen in 1869 by the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad Company (subsequently merged in the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company) for the location of its shops. Creston was incorporated as a town in 1869, and was chartered as a city in 1871.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Creston'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/creston.html. 1910.
 
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