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Kewanee
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a city of Henry county, Illinois, U.S.A., in the N. W. part of the state, about 55 m. N. by W. of Peoria. Pop. (1900), 8382, of whom 2006 were foreign-born; (1906 estimate), io,668. It is served by the Chicago Burlington & Quincy railroad and by the Galesburg & Kewanee Electric railway. Among its manufactures are foundry and machineshop products, boilers, carriages and wagons, agricultural implements, pipe and fittings, working-men's gloves, &c. In 1905 the total factory product was valued at $6,729,381, or 61.5% more than in 1900. Kewanee was settled in 1836 by people from Wethersfield, Connecticut, and was first chartered as a city in 1897.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Kewanee'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/k/kewanee.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Kewanee'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/k/kewanee.html. 1910.
