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 frukrt, ill. By VV. H. Wagner & Sons. 
 
FREEPORT, 
 
 THE COUNTY SEAT OF STEPHENSON COUNTY, ILL., 
 
 IS most beautifully located in one of the finest and most fertile sec- 
 1 tions of the state, and the entire north-west, and its vicinity is 
 justly called "the Garden of Illinois." Its population, including the 
 suburbs, numbers about 17,000. Five lines of the Illinois Central 
 R. R., running east, south, west, north-west and north, center at this 
 point ; the Galena division of the Chicago and Northwestern R. R., 
 having its western terminus here, is one of the first railroads built in 
 the " Prairie State ;" the southwestern division of the Chicago, Mil- 
 waukee and St. Paul R. R. connects us with the north-east and south- 
 west ; and the Chicago Great Western Railway has it depot in South 
 Freeport, but a few miles distant ; an aggregate of 100 rail road 
 trains arriving and departing every day. We are no miles west of 
 Chicago, and can reach the World's Fair City on the four roads, in a 
 three hours' ride, with 13 passenger trains daily each way. 
 
 The German Insurance Company, the largest Company in the 
 west, is located here. Freeport has larger Banking Capital than any 
 other city of its size in the west, and thirty-eight Factories furnish 
 employment to a large number of skilled workmen. The principal 
 factories are the Henney Buggy Co., Stover Mfg. Co., Stover Bicycle 
 Mfg. Co., Stover Heater Co., Stover Novelty Works, Robinson Mfg. 
 Co., Arcade Mfg. Co., Woodmanse & Hewitt Co., Freeport Bicycle 
 Mfg. Co., Johnson Wheel Co., H. D. Bentley Piano and Organ Stool 
 Factory, John E. Tuckett & Son's Tobacco Works, Warner Mfg. Co., 
 H. Meyer Boot and Shoe Mfg. Co., John Loos Mfg. Co., Riverside 
 Tannery, Standard Store Service Carrier Co., Freeport Cigar Co.. 
 Union Nickel and Silver Plating Works ; C. E. Meyer & Co., C. H! 
 Rosenstiel & Sons, and Burrell Bros. Vinegar Works, Magney-Cate 
 Sash-Balance Co., and others. In addition to the above we have two 
 Marble Works, three Brick Yards, two Planing Mills, and three 
 Breweries. Six Newspapers are published in our city, three of them 
 both daily and weekly in the English language, and two weeklies in 
 German. .Eighf: Public .Schools, ranking with the best in the state, 
 five; Baioch'ial Schools afld a first-class Business College offer educa- 
 tional' advantages' second to none. Among the 18 churches are some 
 as fine as may be found almost anywhere. The public improvements 
 consist of .Paved Streets, Water Works, furnishing an ample supply 
 of the purest; water, a complete Sewer System, a thoroughly organ- 
 ized File Department and Electric Fire Alarm, Electric and Gas 
 Lighting, Street Cars, &c. Our people are energetic, wide-awake, 
 intelligent, industrious, social and hospitable. 
 
 The illustrations on the following pages will convince anyone 
 that we have a right to be proud of Freeport, and it is therefore with 
 a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction that we issue this Souvenir 
 of our fair and beautiful city and its vicinity. 
 
 THE PUBLISHERS. 
 
 PHOTOS BY OSCAR WAONER, AMATEUR. 
 
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