Honest Abe's Honest Almanac, 1974: Being a Cornucopia of Amazing Facts, Useful Wisdom, and Amusing Anecdotes Concerning the Social, Political, Economic, Recreational, Educational, and Cultural Life of Springfield, Illinois; Past and Present
Excerpt from Honest Abe's Honest Almanac, 1974: Being a Cornucopia of Amazing Facts, Useful Wisdom, and Amusing Anecdotes Concerning the Social, Political, Economic, Recreational, Educational, and Cultural Life of Springfield, Illinois; Past and Present Mercantile agents, or drummers, at that early day were unknown. Twice a year Western merchants went East to replenish their stock of goods. The stagecoaches were run night and day, traveling about one hundred miles in twenty-four hours. About the time we speak of one of ...
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Excerpt from Honest Abe's Honest Almanac, 1974: Being a Cornucopia of Amazing Facts, Useful Wisdom, and Amusing Anecdotes Concerning the Social, Political, Economic, Recreational, Educational, and Cultural Life of Springfield, Illinois; Past and Present Mercantile agents, or drummers, at that early day were unknown. Twice a year Western merchants went East to replenish their stock of goods. The stagecoaches were run night and day, traveling about one hundred miles in twenty-four hours. About the time we speak of one of these elegant stages left Baltimore crowded with Western passengers, mostly merchants, for Wheeling, on the Ohio River. Having traveled one day and night, they were crossing the mountains slowly, tired and sleepy. Discussions on various topics were often encouraged to enliven the otherwise tedious hours. On this occasion three of the passengers were discussing the claims of several of the States to the title Garden Spot of America, while others listened or slept. One of the three presented the claim of. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in its then highly-cultivated condition; its rich limestone soil, its beautiful rolling surface, and its never-failing harvests, its immense barns, etc. The second, in elegant terms, portrayed the region around Frankfort, Kentucky for beauty and climate, and for fertility of soil and elegant improvements, as the Garden Spot. And the third gentleman presented and urged the claim of the Shenandoah Valley, of Virginia, surrounded by the mountains and watered by ten thousand never-failing springs gushing from the mountains; its golden harvests of grain and luscious fruits, and its blooded flocks upon a thousand hills. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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