The New International Encyclopædia/Georgetown (Texas)

GEORGETOWN. A city and the county-seat of Williamson County, Tex., 30 miles north of Austin; on the San Gabriel River, and on a branch of the international and Great Northern Railroad (Map: Texas, F 4). It has cotton-gins, cottonseed-oil mills, and planing-mills, and is the seat of Southwestern University (Methodist Episcopal, South), founded in 1873. In Page Park are mineral wells, which analysis shows to be similar to the famous Karlsbad springs. Settled in 1854, Georgetown was incorporated twenty years later, and is governed under revised statutes of 1895 by a mayor and council, elected biennially on a general ticket. Population, in 1890, 2447; in 1900, 2790.