Superior, Wisconsin, USA
1895 - Superior

Superior, a flourishing city of Wisconsin, the capital of Douglas co., is situated at the head (west end) of Lake Superior, at the mouths of the St. Louis and Nemadji Rivers, adjacent to the city of Duluth, from which it is separated by St. Louis Bay (the embouchure of St. Louis River), about 110 miles (179 by rail) N. by E. of Minneapolis and about 400 miles N.W. of Chicago. Superior was chartered as a village in 1887, and as a city in 1889. It has 35 church organizations, the most of which own their places of worship, 2 commodious hospitals, 8 fine public school buildings erected at a cost of $266,830 and now valued with grounds at $341,848, a city hall, a public library, a fire department with electric alarm appliances, 40 miles of paved streets, an excellent sewer system, 42. Its industrial appliances embrace several extensive grain. elevators and flouring-mills, dry-docks, and manufactories of steel ships, iron and steel rails and plate, chairs, wagons, stoves, windmills, brewery products, shirts, bricks, sash and doors, mineral paint, mattresses, adamant, lime, barrels, lumber, shingles, &c. It has 12 banks, and newspapers in the English, German, Swedish, and other languages. Four railways connected by belt lines and terminal systems converge here. Pop. of village in 1887, 3353; of the city in 1890, 11,983; in 1891, 21,215; present pop, about 35,000.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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