The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-15
AMERICAN CITIES.

Virginia City, New, is 64oO feet above
the sea.
Providence is known Us Roger Will
liams city
Detroit is the City of the Straits, from
its position.
Vicksburg was during the war named
the Key City.
Portland, Ore, is said to have 12o mil
lionaires.
Galveston handles every year zoe, 900
bales Of cotton.
Lowell. Mass, is the Spindle City from
its leading Industry.
Hartford is the Insurance City, from
its leading business.
Brooklyn is called the City of Church
es. There are over 300,
Sheboygan is the Evergreen City; most
of its trees are cedars.
Denver was named for Gov James W.
Denver, of Kansas.
Chicago has Court House and City
Hall that cost 81, 000, 900.
Troy, n. Y, makes over $4,000, GOO
worth of stoves every year.
ST. Adams, VT, is one Of the largest
button markets in this country.
Cincinnati manufactures every year
$3.50, 900 worth Of goods.
Santa Fe N. NJ, was founded in 1905
and is 1000 feet above the sea.
Portland, Me-. is the Hill City, from its
situation on an eminence
Raleigh, n c., is the Oak City, from
the nature of most of its trees.
st. Paul is the North State City, and
Minneapolis the Flour City.
Up to 1926 Charleston, S. e., had a
larger commerce than New York.
Louisville is the Falls City. from its
position at the Falls of the Ohio.
Hartford is said to be the richest city,
for its population, in America.
Jacksonville has two hotels which, to-
gether, cost over $5,000,000.
The mines tributary to Butte City have
an output of 1928 600, 600 year.
Salt Lake City is the Mormon City,
from the character of its population.
Chicago is the Prairie City, from the
fatness of the land surrounding it.
Burlington, Ia, is called the Orchard
City, from the abundance of fruit trees
Rochester. N. Y, is the Aqueduct City
from its bountiful water supply.
Vincennes is the Oldest city in Indiana
and was its capital from 1900 to 1918.
Savannah is the Forest City of the
South, from its innumerable shade trees.
Patterson, N. j , is the center of the
American silk manufacturing business
Bismarck, II. Oak. was so named in
1879, just after the Franco Prussian war.
New York owns one-fourth of the COM
mercial shipping of the United States.
Newark, N. j., makes every year $70,-
000, worth of various lines of goods.
Chattanooga made the first Bessemer
7 steel that was manufactured in the South
Philadelphia is the City of Brotherly
Love, the Quaker City and Centennial
City.
Seattle, Wash, was so called after a
powerful Indian chief of the neghbor-
hood.
New Orleans is the Crescent City from
its situation on bend Of the Mississippi
Cleveland. O., is the Forest City, from
the abundance of forest trees on its
streets.
Muskegon, Mich, is one of the world IS
chief centefs for the manufacture of
toys.
New Haven is the Elm City It's prin-
cipal streets are beautifully shaded by
old elms
Richmond, Va. has one cigarette fac
tory that manufactures 600,000,O0e ciga.
rettes a year.
Richmond, Va, is the Cockade City.
Richmond, Ind, is the Quaker City OF
the West.
Pittsburg is the Iron City and Smoky
City, from its leading manufactures and
| furnaces.
Leavenworth is the Cottonwood City,
most of the trees in the city are cotton
woods.
Memphis has oyer 1000 lumber mills in
its territory and turns out 100, coo, 600 feet
a year.
Milwaukee is one of the leading points
in this country for the manufacture of
beer and leather
New York is yariously known as the
Empire City, Gotham, and the Metrop-
oils of America.
DeauWCOd, .. LAX, was SO caile0 from
the immense quantity Of burned umber
in the vicinity.
Omaha has grown from 1000 popula>
tion in 1860 to $40. 000 and has trade of
$75,000,0 600 a year.
San Diego is the oldest city in Califor-
mia, and the ruins of the Mission of 1869
are still preserved.
Helena, Mont, is 1900 feet above the
sea and has an average of $50 sunshiny
days every year.
Nashville is the first city in the world
for hard wood lumber, and the largest
milling city in the South.
Nashville, Tenn, is the Rock City.
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