Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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.

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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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 ‘ FRIENDS, ROMANS, COUNTRYMEN, LEND ME YOUR EARS.”