CEDAR FALLS  , a city of Black Hawk county, Iowa, U.S.A., on the Cedar river, about too m . W. of Dubuque . Pop . (189o) 3459; (1900) 5319; (1905, state census) 5329 (872 being foreign-born); (1910) 5012 . It is served by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Illinois Central, the Chicago Great Western, and the Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern railways . Its manufactures include flour, ground feed, other cereal preparations, hardware specialties, canned vegetables (especially Indian corn), and planing-mill products . It is the seat of the state normal school (1876), and has a public library . The settlement of the place, the oldest in the county, was begun in 1847; it was laid out as a town in 1851, incorporated as a village in 1857, chartered as a city in 1865, and for a short time in 1853 was the county-seat .