LAKE

See also:

• GENEVA
• GENEVA (Fr. Geneve, Ger. Genf, Ital. Ginevra, Late Lat. Gebenna, though Genava in good Latin)
• GENEVA, LAKE OF

GENEVA  , a city of Walworth county, Wisconsin, U.S.A., 65 m . N.W. of Chicago . Pop . (1900) 2585, of whom 468 were foreign-born; (1905) 3449; (1910) 3079 . It is served by the Chicago & Northwestern railway. the city is picturesquely situated on the shores of Lake Geneva (9 m. long and 1Z to 3 M. wide), a beautiful body of remarkably clear water, fed by springs, and encircled by rolling hills covered with thick groves cf hardwood trees . The region is famous as a summer resort, particularly for Chicago people . The city is the seat of Oakwood Sanitarium, and at Williams Bay, 6 m. distant, is the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago . Dairying is the most important industrial interest . The first settlement on Lake Geneva was made about 1833 . The city was chartered in 1893 .