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Racine

City, port of entry, and administrative headquarters of Racine County, southwest Wisconsin, USA, at the mouth of the Root River on Lake Michigan, 39 km/24 mi south of Milwaukee; population (2000) 81,900. It is an agricultural centre with lumbering and food-processing industries. Vehicle components, farm machinery, paints, varnishes, and wax products are manufactured. A high proportion of the population is of Danish descent.

Racine was founded in 1834. Industrial growth was accelerated by the development of its harbour facilities in the mid-1840s, and the arrival of the railroad in 1855. The Johnson Wax Company, which produces waxes, polishes, and other household goods, is important to the local economy; its buildings, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, are among the architect's outstanding works.
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Their winter quarters are upon the Racine Amere, where they subsist upon roots and dried buffalo meat.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
Lemon's, read little French literature later than Racine, and public prints had not cast their present magnificent illumination over the scandals of life.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
One of them claimed to have done wonders with an iron hoop and a file in 1867; a second had a marvellous table with glass legs; a third swore that he had made a telephone in 1860, but did not know what it was until he saw Bell's patent; and a fourth told a vivid story of having heard a bullfrog croak via a telegraph wire which was strung into a certain cellar in Racine, in 1851.
The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert N. View in context
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