The New International Encyclopædia/Louisiana (Missouri)

LOUISIANA. A city in Pike County, Mo., 86 miles northwest of Saint Louis; on the Mississippi River, and on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Chicago and Alton, and other railroads (Map: Missouri, E 2). It has a public school library of 3000 volumes. The city controls an important trade, particularly in fruit, produce, tobacco, grain, live stock, etc.; and among its industrial plants are nurseries, flour and lumber mills, manufactories of buttons, tobacco, cigars, carriages, and wagons, a stone quarry, lime kiln, brick yards, etc. The nurseries here are very extensive, ranking among the largest in the United States. Population, in 1890, 5090; in 1900, 5131.