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This is a digitally reproduced version of Minnesota as it is in 1870, Its General Resources and Attractions for
Immigrants, Invalids, Tourists, Capitalists, and Business Men (Principally from Official Authorities) with Special Descriptions of all its Counties and Towns,
their Topography, Population, Nationalities, Products, Business, Wealth, Social Advantages and Inducements to those in Quest of Homes, Health, or Pleasure.
Published by J.W. McClung. Historians, genealogists and researchers of this period in Minnesota history, as well as those interested in Minnesota place names, will find this book a very useful resource. 19th century Minnesota maps included for cartographic reference.
The 300 page book is divided in two Parts. Part First contains eighteen chapters that provide statistical data describing Minnesota as it is in 1870. Part Second includes alphabetically organized descriptions of Minnesota's counties and their towns. A third section of the book includes 66 pages of business advertisements providing insight into the goods and services of 19th century Minnesota. Download Table of Contents (628K PDF).
Some further details on the two Parts:
Part First
- Natural Features and General View of the State
- Population and Nationality
- Official Descriptions of Every Part of the State
- Climate-General View
- Health- A Chapter for Invalids
- Theory of the Climate
- Scenery- A Chapter for Tourists
- Minnesota as a Farming Country
- Commericial Resources- Railroads, Rivers and Markets
- Manufactures and Water Power
- Minnesota as a Fruit Country
- Education and Religion
- Indians- Agencies and Trading Posts, etc.
- Scene on the Frontier
- Government Land
- Fish and game, Natural History
- Banks- Insurance Companies- Telegraphs- Stages, etc.
- Cost of Living- Prices Current- Wages, etc.
Part Second
- The Counties- Every County of the State in alphabetical order, and its towns, specially described as to population, nationality, soil, timber, prairie, meadow, lakes, streams, water power, area cultivated, products, prices of lands, fuel, lumber, numbers of live stock, increase of wealth and business, number of schools, school houses, and their value, children between five and twenty-one, churches, societies, number of stores, amount of business, number of lawyers, doctors and other professions and trades, amount of buildings and improvements, advantages and openings for business, number of mills, number and location of water powers, amount of school and railroad lands unsold, and the prices and terms, post offices, etc.
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