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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 414 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CRESTON  , a

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city and the
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county-seat of
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Union county,
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Iowa, U.S.A., about 6o M . S.W. of
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Des Moines, at the
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crossing of the
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main
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line and two branches of the
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Chicago,
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Burlington &
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Quincy railway . Pop . (189o) 7200; (1900) 7752; (1905,
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state
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census) 8382 (753
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foreign-
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born); (r91o) 6924 . The city is on the
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crest of the
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divide between the
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Mississippi and the
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Missouri basins at an
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altitude of about 1310 ft.—whence its name . It is situated in a
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fine farming and stock-raising region, for which it is a
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shipping point . The site was chosen in 1869 by the Burlington & Missouri
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River Railroad
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Company (subsequently merged in the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company) for the location of its shops . Creston was incorporated as a
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town in x869, and was chartered as a city in 187r .

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