Querétaro, an important town of Mexico, capital of Querétaro state (see MEXICO), is charmingly situated on a hilly plateau, 6273 feet above sea-level, 153 miles by rail NW. of Mexico city. It contains a government palace, a cathedral, an aqueduct supported in part upon arches 90 feet high, and two large cotton-spinning mills, employing 2300 hands. Here the Emperor Maximilian was shot by order of a court-martial, 19th June 1867. Pop. 36,000.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 529
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