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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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DAM  , a
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city of
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Dodge
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county,
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Wisconsin, U.S.A., situated in the S.E.
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part of the
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state, 63 m . N.W. of
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Milwaukee, on
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Beaver
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Lake, which is 9 M.
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long and 3 M. wide . Pop . (189o) 4222; (1900) 5128, of whom 1023 were
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foreign-
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born; (1905) 5615; (1910) 6758 . Most of the
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population is of
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German descent . Beaver
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Dam is served by the
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St
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Paul railway . The city is a summer resort, has a public library, and is the seat of
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Wayland
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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
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country; it has a
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good
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water-
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power derived from Beaver Lake, and among its manufactures are woollen and
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cotton goods, malleable
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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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