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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 992 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OCONTO  , a

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city and the
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county-seat of Oconto county,
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Wisconsin, U.S.A., about 130 M . N. of
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Milwaukee, on the W.
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shore of
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Green
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Bay, at the mouth of the Oconto
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river . Pop . (1890) 5219; (1900) 5646, of whom 1544 were
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foreign-
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born; (1905) 5722; (1910) 5629 . It is served by the
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Chicago &
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North-Western and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St
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Paul
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railways . The city lies in a
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good farming
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country, and has a considerable
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lake
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commerce in
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lumber and
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fish . The first
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settlement was made here in 1846, and Oconto was chartered as a city in 1882 .

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