around avenue de l’Hôtel-de-Ville
Le Locle (3022´) (*Trois Rois), a considerable town of similar character to the last [La Chaux-de-Fonds], entirely burnt down a few years ago, but since rebuilt, with 9336 inhab (817 Rom. Cath), almost exclusively employed in the manufacture of watches.
K. Bædeker “Switzerland, and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol. 4th ed.” Coblenz 1869