Terre Haute
a city and countyseat of Vigo co., Ind.; on the Wabash river, and on the Vandalia, the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, the Terre Haute and Southeastern, the Cleveland , Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis, and other railroads; 73 miles W. of Indianapolis.
The city is built in a farming section, near the extensive block coal mines of Clay co. It contains the Rose Polytechnic Institute, the State Normal School, St. Mary's Institute (R. C.), Old Ladies' Home, St. Ann's Orphan Asylum, St. Anthony's Hospital (R. C.), Union Home for Invalids, court house, United States Government building, several libraries, National, State, and savings banks, and several daily, weekly and monthly periodicals. The city has waterworks, a sewer system, well paved streets, and street railroad and electric light plants. Terre Haute is an important manufacturing city, having flour and hominy mills, rolling mills, blast furnaces, tool factories, meat-packing establishments, casting works, nail works, paving brick, and other clay works, railroad car shops, and a number of large grain elevators. Pop. (1910) 58,157 ; (1920) 66,083.