Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sketches of the Early History of Real Estate in St. Paul
These new settlers were wiser and more sagacious men than Farrant. They foresaw that the time would come, some day, when there would be a church and schoolhouse here, a tavern, and a blacksmith shop, frame instead of log houses, and perhaps, who knows - some day a population of several hundred' peo ple!
SO De Mair, instead of selling his claim. Out on University avenue, near where the old car barn stood, for a paltry ten dollars, got a horse and wagon for it, and made another claim where Calvary cemetery is, and got for that a pair of horses.
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