Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
1895 - Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo, a city, capital of Kalamazoo co., Mich., is situated in a beautiful valley, in Kalamazoo township, on a river of the same name, and on the Michigan Central Railroad where it crosses the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad and the Kalamazoo division of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, 49 miles S. of Grand Rapids, 68 miles W. of Jackson, and 140 miles E.N.E. of Chicago. Here is the Kalamazoo College (Baptist), which was organized in 1855 and has a library of 3000 volumes. This city contains also 27 churches, a public library, the Michigan Female Seminary, organized in 1866, 2 business colleges, the large and expensive edifice of the state asylum for the insane (with about 1000 inmates), 4 national banks, 2 other banks, and printing-offices which issue 2 daily and 4 weekly newspapers. It has 10 hotels, 2 theatres, the Holly system of water-works, is lighted by gas and electricity, has 80 manufacturing establishments employing 5000 operatives, eight miles of street-railway, 10 public school buildings, 4 private schools, 40 incorporated companies with a capital of over $4,000,000, annual products valued at $6,000,000, annual wages amounting to $1,500,000, and five railroads. Pop. in 1880, 11,937, in 1890, 17,853.

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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