Janesville, Wisconsin

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Janesville, Wis., a city and the county seat of Rock Co., 60 m. n.w. of Chicago, on the Rock River and on the Chicago North Western, the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul and other railroads. The city utilizes the water power of the river and has various manufacturing establishments, including foundries, wagon and carriage factories, cement works, brickyards, cotton and woolen mills, stockyards and manufactories of school supplies, fountain pens, furniture, flour, agricultural implements, boots and shoes. A large trade in farm and dairy products and manufactured products is carried on. Janesville is attractively situated on bluffs above the river. It is the seat of the Wisconsin State School for the Blind, and has a city hall, courthouse, post office, public library, city hospital and Y. M. C. A. Building. The place was settled about 1834 and was named in honor of Henry F. Janes, one of the first settlers. It was chartered as a city in 1853. Population in 1920, 18,293.