Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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tion of size is Genoa, so called from an Italian colony, which, in some way, wandered here many years ago and settled permanently. The next village bears the high-sounding name of Victory, because here, at the mouth of Bad Axe River, in August, 1832, the once-famous ‘‘Black Hawk War” (in which President Lincoln was a captain) ended with a battle, in which the forces of the celebrated Black Hawk, chief of the Sacs and Foxes, were nearly annihilated. De Soto, a village of 400 people, was a New England settlement in the West, and is most romantically situated, some of the finest views on the river being visible from the surrounding bluffs. An hour more takes us to Prairie du Chien, one of the two oldest settlements in the State of Wisconsin, the other being Green Bay. During the war of 1S12, the British troops, assisted by Indian allies, captured a United States fort, and held it till the peace. In 1829-30, Col. Zachary Taylor, old “Rough and Ready,’' was stationed here, and built Fort Crawford. Here Jefferson Davis served as a lieutenant of Regulars. Taylor remained here till 1836, when he went to Florida, on his w'ay to the battle-tieldsof Mexico and the Presidency. Next we reach Cassville, a neat village of a thousand people, and more than fifty years old. Close by the track is the Dennison House, erected in the ’30s, when the first territorial o UNt Of BURLINGTON AOUTt TO 6T. RAUL ANO MINNEAPOLIS leglSlatU Of Wisconsin met here, and Cassville had hopes of becoming the capital. Thirty miles through bottom lands, and with a swing and rush we round the point of a huge bluff, and pull up at Dubuque, the commercial metropolis of Northeastern Iowa. Fourteen miles below Dubuque a branch four miles long connects the main line with the city of Galena, once the headquarters for the steamboat trade, and the main seat of lead mining industry. Here the train leaves the Father of Waters, which it has now followed side by side for 300 miles, and turns eastward through the beautiful prairies of Illinois for Chicago. Day Express leaves the Union Depot at 7:10a.m., Night express “Vestibule Limited at 6:40 p. in.; 13J hours to Chicago, 22 hours to St. Louis. For information apply to J. F. McElboy, Agent, 300 Nicollet, cor. 3d St.

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ON THE WAtfMAADCC RIVER, WIS. ON UNE Cf BURUfrOTON ROUTE TO 6T. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. Hie jnississippl River “Scenic Line.” GOING SOUTH. This line is within view of the Mississippi, on the eastern side of the stream. £ For the first ten miles we pass a succession of pretty suburban villiages, made possible by a sendee of eleven trains a day each way. Twenty-four miles from St. Paul we reach placid and beautiful Lake St. Croix, between Minnesota and the “Badger State.” We stop at Prescott, whose pretty houses look down on the mirror-like St. Croix to the north, and the powerful flood of the Mississippi on the west. Another thirty miles of the rumble of the wheels, passing the stations of Diamond Bluff, Hager and Bay City, and we rush suddenly upon the broad expanse of Lake Pepin, and the pretty village of Maiden Rock, half hidden in a deep glen. Four miles south we round the lofty height of “Maiden Rock ' whose romantic legend is so familiar, and soon reach Stockholm, where the general government has constructed a breakwater for the protection of boats in storms. The next halt is at the village of Pepin, where is the prettiest beach on the lake. Rushing through the dense woods, we pause briefly at Alma, the county seat of Buffalo county, a prosperous and well-built town. Flying through a well-tilled prairie, we reacli Fountain City, a town of some 1,200 people,doing a considerable business. Here, as at Alma, the people sing “Die Wacht am Rhein,” and know very well what “gemullichkeit” is—for they are genuine German villages, and seldom is any other language heard in their streets. Ten miles further we reach Winona, the business metropolis of Southern Minnesota. Nine miles from Winona we pass the singular formation called “Trempealeau Mountain”—“la montaignequi trempe a l’eau—the mountain set in the water.” A mile below are the remains of a French fort, and numerous Indian mounds, from which have been taken many curious implements of war used by the aborigines. La Crosse is the second city of Wisconsin, having a great number of large manufacturing and business interests. In the northern part of the city, at Grand Crossing, are the extensive shops and round houses of “The Burlington,” and a fine club-house, erected for the use of employes. Leaving La Crosse, the first sta-

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THE High School Annual ISSUED BY THE Senior • Class ♦ '91 OK THE Central High School, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. VOL I 1. JUNE io, 1891: L. KIMBALL PRINTING CO.