AberdeenSouthDakota

ABERDEEN, a city and the county-seat of Brown county, South

Dakota, U.S.A., about 125 m. N.E. of Pierre. Pop. (1890)

3182; (1900) 4087, of whom 889 were foreign born; (1905) 5841;

(1910) 10,753. Aberdeen is served by the Chicago, Milwaukee

and St Paul, the Great Northern, the Minneapolis and St

Louis, and the Chicago and North Western railways. It is

the financial and trade centre for the northern part of the

state, a fine agricultural region, and in 1908 had five banks

and a number of wholesale houses. The city is the seat of the

Northern Normal and Industrial School, a state institution,

and has a Carnegie Library; the principal buildings are the

court house and the government buildings. Artesian wells

furnish good water-power, and artesian-well supplies, grain

pitchers, brooms, chemicals and flour are manufactured. The

municipality owns and operates the water-works. Aberdeen

was settled in 1880, and was chartered as a city in 1883.

Source: An unnamed encyclopedia from a project that puts out-of-copyright texts into the public domain. This is from a *very* old source, and reflects the thinking of the turn of the last century. -- BryceHarrington