A city of southeast Ontario, Canada, near Lake Ontario east-northeast of Toronto. It was founded in 1790.
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Belleville Sentence Examples
Belleville is served by the Illinois Central, the Louisville & Nashville, and the Southern railways, also by extensive interurban electric systems; and a belt line to O'Fallon, Illinois, connects Belleville with the Baltimore & Ohio South Western railway.
Belleville is in a rich agricultural region, and in the vicinity there are valuable coal mines, the first of which was sunk in 1852; from this dates the industrial development of the city.
Belleville was first settled in 1813, was incorporated as a city in 1850, and was re-incorporated in 1876.
On this account Hecker resolved in September 1848 to emigrate to North America, and obtained possession of a farm near Belleville in the state of Illinois.