WAUKESHA, a city of Wisconsin, U.S.A., 16 m. W. of Mil waukee, on the Little Fox river. Population (1920) 12,558 (85% native white) ; 17,176 in 1930 Federal census. There are mineral springs which were first exploited in 1868 and have led to the establishment of institutions of healing. The waters (White Rock, Bethesda, and others) are shipped to all parts of America and to Europe. Waukesha is the seat of Carroll college (Presbyterian; 1846), the State Industrial school for boys (1860), and a U.S.
Veterans' hospital. It is a shipping point for pure-bred Holstein and Guernsey cattle. It was settled in 1836, was named Prairie vile in 1839, incorporated as a village under its present name (supposed to mean "fox") in 1852 and in 1896 was chartered.