Identifier: polksindia00unse (find matches)
Title: Polk's Indianapolis (Marion County, Ind.) city directory, 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Indianapolis, Ind. Business enterprises Residential streets Official residences People Government facilities Churches Schools Streets Cities
Publisher: R.L. Polk
Contributing Library: Indianapolis City Directory Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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attractions of the sur-rounding region are of a different and more wholesome kind, and draw to them those whoseek health and recreation, and offer a delightful hot weather asylum to all who need toescape from crowded cities or a sultry climate. Besides this, the voyage imparts a pleasingexcitement to the faculty of observation, curiosity is stirred up to the highest pitch, andpleasantly gratified by the hourly unfolding of fresh scenes of nature, some new blendingof land and water, a group of islands different from the last, or a shifting series of paintedclouds seen in the kaleidoscope of heaven afford constant variety, while the frequent tripsof the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Companys steamers enable you to return assoon as desired. Constance Fennimore Woolson knew the charm of the place when she made it thescene of so many romances, among them being the novel Anne, and the short sketches. Themselves of the charming quiet, and the luxury of a delightful full nights rest.
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iv Tnis Night Line by water is a Short Cut between the Cities of Cleveland and Detroit. Miss Woolsons writings have thrown a wierd witchery about Mackinac, and it has beer,to her a favorite spot for the locale of her romances. In answer to a letter asking for inform-ation, as to the number of times she had written of this place, Miss Woolson says: I haveoften alluded to Mackinac in my sketches and stories. The second sketch I wrote (thenbeginning) was about Mackinac, it was called Fairy Island, and was purely descriptive.There was, later, a shortstory of mine in the Galaxy, called Flowerof the Snow, whosescene was Mackinac. But these were tentative merely. The first real description 1 gavepf .the island in print were two short stories, one called The Old Agency, the other Jean-nette, both published in Scribners Magazines, now the Century. Twice then, in mynovel Anne the island appears again; it is the scene of the first quarter of that story. Indeed, Mackinac might well be the scene o

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