Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Description of Faribault Vicinity: With Its Charming Combination of Hill and Dale, Lake and River, Forest and Prairie, Showing Views of Its Educational Institutions, Churches, Business Establishments and Scenery
The town owes much of its attractiveness still to the charming natural scenery which so impressed even the untutored savage. It is situated a little above the junction of the Cannon and the Owatonna, or, as it is now known, the Straight Rivers; the former running in an easterly and the latter in a northerly direction. It lies mostly on the slope of the high rolling prairie that rises hack to. The south and the southwest from these rivers. The east bank of the Straight River is a blufi that rises more or less abruptly to the hight'of a hundred feet. This bluff is surmounted by a plateau which is occupied by the six public and private institutions which are illustrated and described farther on. Back of this the receding hills rise to a farther height of 150 feet. It is from this summit that the extended View which forms the frontispiece was taken. From many points on this bluff, and from all the institutions, one can obtain a View of almost the entire city, and of the borders of the Big Woods, which stretch away beyond the Cannon River for a distance of thirty or forty miles, forming a scene of loveliness that no artist can copy.
The reader will see from this description, that Faribault is not a west. Ern prairie town. The scenery possesses more of the characteristics of a New York or a New England town than is often found in the West. The country in all this section is broken and diversified, the soil rich, water abundant and good, and much of the higher ground is still covered with the timber. There is no section of the State that, either in town or country, offers greater inducements to those who wish to become bona fide set tlers and citizens, than the city of Faribault and the county of Rice.
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