Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
|
ARGENTINE , a former See also:city of See also:Wyandotte See also:county, Kansan, U . S . A., since See also:solo a See also:part of See also:Kansas City, on the S. See also:bank of the Kansas See also:river, just above its mouth . Pop . (1890) 4732; (1900) 5878, of whom 623 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 603 of See also:negro descent; (1905, See also:state See also:census) 6053 . It is served by the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe railway, which maintains here yards and See also:machine shops . The streets of the city run irregularly up the steep See also:face of the river bluffs . Its See also:chief See also:industrial See also:establishment is that of the See also:United See also:Zinc and Chemical See also:Company, which has here one of the largest See also:plants of its See also:kind in the See also:country . There are large See also:grain interests . The site was platted in 1880, and the city was first incorporated in 1882 and again, as a city -of the second class, in 1889 . |
|
|
[back] ARGENTINA |
[next] ARGENTINE REPUBLIC |
There are no comments yet for this article.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are encouraged.