. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . inery of aflour mill, a wagon factory, butter tub factory, saw 44 The North and West Illustrated. mill, machine shop, and other minor shops. Thetown has o
. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . inery of aflour mill, a wagon factory, butter tub factory, saw 44 The North and West Illustrated. mill, machine shop, and other minor shops. Thetown has one good school house, five churches, onenewspaper, a masonic and an odd fellows1 hall,three public halls, and one hotel, The PecatonicaHouse, by Jas. OBrien, with 20 rooms for guests at$2 per day. The town is built on Pecatonica river,which is here crossed by a substantial iron bridge. Bidott, 114 miles from Chicago. In Stephensoncounty is this village of 300 souls. It has one grainelevator, a cheese factory, a public hall that cost$7,000, three schools, one church, and one , Oneco, and Cedarville are tributary,and are reached by stage. Freeport, 121 miles from Chicago. This city,with its 11,000 inhabitants, is the county seat ofStephenson county. The county was organized in1836-7, and was named for the Winnebago tribe ofIndians, who had their homes in the vicinity until1^5. when they were moved beyond the borders of. Public School, Arlington Heights, III.—page 50 Illinois. Winnesheick, the head chief of the tribe,had in 1827 his village of 200 lodges on the groundwhere Freeport is now located, and the burialground of his fathers is now covered by the freighthouses of the C. & Ry ! In early days con-siderable lead was mined in Stephenson county,and in 1827 a war broke out between the miners (ofthe Galena district) and the Indians, and had itnot been for Winnesheicks friendly warning, everywhite person in Northern Illinois would have beentreacherously mu
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