Cedar Rapids, a town of Linn county, Iowa, on the Red Cedar River, 79 miles SW. of Dubuque. It is an important railway centre, and has several large flour-mills, carriage and machine works, and breweries. Pop. (1860) 1830; (1890) 18,020.
Cedar Rapids
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 42
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