Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Evansville

EVANSVILLE, a city port of entry, and the county-seat of Vanderburg co., Ind., on the Ohio river, and the Evansville and Terre Haute, the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis, the Louisville and Nashville, and several other railroads: 185 miles W. of Louisville. It is on a high bank at a bend in the river midway between the falls and the junction with the Mississippi; is the trade center of a rich agricultural and coal region; and has the finest wharf and city front on the Ohio or Mississippi river. It has excellent shipping facilities, with 10 packet lines, iron and brass foundries, harness and saddlery, steam engine and boiler, furniture, boot and shoe, pottery, metal goods, tobacco, and chemical plants. The city contains the Evansville Insane, St. Mary's, and United States Marine Hospitals, County Infirmary, Evans Hall, United States Government Building, public day school for the deaf, a business college, public library, high school, daily and weekly newspapers, 3 National and several private banks, and an assessed property valuation of over $25,000,000. Pop. (1910) 69,647; (1920) 85,264.