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BEAVER DAM

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 601 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEAVER
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DAM
  , a city of Dodge county, Wisconsin, U.S.A., situated in the S.E.
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part of the state, 63 m . N.W. of
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Milwaukee, on Beaver Lake, which is 9 M. long and 3 M. wide . Pop . (189o) 4222; (1900) 5128, of whom 1023 were
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foreign-born; (1905) 5615; (1910) 6758 . Most of the population is of German descent . Beaver
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Dam is served by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railway . The city is a summer resort, has a public library, and is the seat of Wayland Academy (1855, Baptist), a co-educational preparatory school affiliated with the university of Chicago . Beaver Dam is situated in the midst of a
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fine farming country; it has a good
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water-power derived from Beaver Lake, and among its manufactures are woollen and cotton goods, malleable iron, foundry products, gasolene engines, agricultural implements, stoves and
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beer . The city was first settled about 1841, and was incorporated in 1856 .

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