The New Student's Reference Work/Brazil, Ind.

Brazil, Ind., a city, the seat of Clay County, 57 miles west southwest of Indianapolis and about 20 miles east of Terre Haute, on the Wabash River.  It is reached by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, the Evansville & Terre Haute system and other railroads.  The city has a public library, and owns and operates its own water-works.  Its industries, aided by the extensive deposits of block-coal, clay and shale of superior quality in the neighborhood, include sewer-pipe and other clay products, brick and tile works, the manufacture of pig iron, boilers, mining engines, steel rails and a variety of other machinery.  Brazil dates from about the year 1856, and was incorporated as a city in 1878.  Population, (1910), 9,340.