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St. Jacobs is an unincorporated suburban community in the township of Woolwich in Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada. [1] It is located north of the city of Waterloo . It is a popular location for tourism, [ 2 ] due to its quaint appearance, retail focus, and Mennonite heritage.
The first store opened in St. Jacobs in 1964. It remains in use by the chain as the furniture outlet but a new store was built across the street, opening in November 2014. [43] Economic development for the township is handled by the Region of Waterloo. Elmira and St. Jacobs have their own Business Improvement Area committees. [44] [45]
St. Jacob or Saint Jacob [1] is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,358 at the 2020 census , [ 3 ] up from 1,098 in 2010 . [ 4 ]
In 2016, the Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge area was rated Canada's third-best area to find full-time employment. [5] The region was formerly called Waterloo County, created in 1853 and dissolved in 1973. The county consisted of five townships: North Dumfries, Waterloo, Wellesley, Wilmot, and Woolwich.
St. Jacob Township is located in Madison County, Illinois, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,578 and it contained 981 housing units. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,578 and it contained 981 housing units.
The local schools include John Mahood Public School, Riverside Public School, St. Teresa RC, Park Manor Senior Public School, and Elmira District Secondary School.The secondary school draws students from the town and surrounding areas of St. Jacobs, Conestogo, Drayton, Winterbourne, Linwood, Heidelberg, West Montrose, Wallenstein, Yatton, Dorking and St. Clements.
The main features are St. Jacob's Well, a water-filled sinkhole which lies in the Little Basin, and the Big Basin, a lush mile-wide crater-like depression, also resulting from a sinkhole. The area is stocked with buffalo and is open to the public. The Big Basin is transected by U.S. Route 283 and U.S. Route 160 which run together for a short ...
In 1997, a group of locals formed the Waterloo–St. Jacobs Railway to run passenger trains on off-days, and especially on weekends to the St. Jacobs Farmers' Market. The company went out of business in 2000 after building a new station at Erb and Caroline Streets in Waterloo, and the operation was purchased by the City of Waterloo.