Ramsey County History – Fall 1974: “Promoters Waxed Lyrical in “Selling” St Paul”

Promoters Waxed Lyrical in “Selling” St Paul
Author: Virginia Brainard Kunz

A publication entitled The Minnesota Year Book for 1853, published in St. Paul, offered its readers information on a host of subjects. Among them were: the makeup of the Territorial Legislature and its salient acts, including a Prohibition law; the non-enforcement of that law; the climate (“without doubt one of the most salubrious and healthful on the continent”); public health; the rivers and lakes (“the rural beauty of some of these liquid mirrors … is altogether indescribable”); the natural products of the earth, including the prairie turnip, the wild artichoke, and a native sweet potato; farm crops (“the quality or quantity of our potato, turnip, beet, and all other garden vegetables cannot be excelled”); pastureland; how to buy land; tourism; and how to travel to St. Paul.
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