Page:History of Goodhue County, Minnesota.djvu/225

 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY 173 x John Arden, Michael Ackerman, Henry Burritt, Oscar H. Free- man, Daniel W. Floss. Cyrus H. Gould, John Hager, Englebert Haller, Charles Hurder, Joseph Harrison, Casper Koch, Henry M. Libby, Harry Lowell, G. A. Grandsbrand, Warren Hunt. Fphraim Harrison, Emsley Hamilton, George W. Hall, Asa Howe, Russell A. Johnson, John A. Jackson, Ira A. Lynch, John Mc- Donald. Ole Nelson, Hiram M. Powers, Franklin Kelley, Theo- dore E. Freeman. John S. Harrison, Peter Connelly. Jefferson Cates, Michael Doyle, Jonathan A. Ingham, James B. Moor- house. Wilson A. Montgomery, William Houk, Joseph E. Mabey, Horace B. Randall, Ynlkert Warring, Eli N. Lewis. James Mitchell, James Owens. George Phinney, Nicholas Schierard, Jacob Schneider, J. K. Smith. Joseph Tapper. Oscar -Williams, P. H. Weaver, Ezra B. Andrus. Isaac Cate, Justus Chase, Asa Daily. Samuel Davis, Edwin C. Eaton, Gustav Sandberg, Jona- than Toms, Joseph C. Eldred, Charles H. McCamland. Dewitt C Smith. Sylvester Dunsmore, Sylvester T. Bush, John R. Winchell, Charles Willson, Orson A. Warren, Jasper M. Woodward, Will- iam Hemter, Andrew More, Horace M. Johnson, Newton Williams,. Cornelius W. Warring, Mead M. Milo. George W. Colby, Charles F. Church, William A. Brack, Jomes Coffman. Jahez M. Whitney, Judson Watson, Michael Hanley, John Johnson, Thomas Mc- Govin. William Morgan, Melvin B. Blasdell, Josiah Wood, Benja- min F. Covington. FRONTENAC. Frontenac, rich in historic traditions, and decorated by the hand of Nature in her most lavish mood, dates its settlement back to the beginning of the eighteenth century, when the sandy point directly opposite Maiden Rock was the scene of much French activity. It is situated in the northeastern part of the town of Florence, on beautiful terraces rising from the level of Lake Pepin. Above the village rises the towering peak of Point No-Point, so called from the fact that the winding of the lake is such that the approaching traveler from down the river, after sighting the point from six or seven miles away, gets apparently no nearer to it until he reaches Frontenac and finds himself a1 its very base. Maiden Rock, opposite Point an Sable, has the common Indian tradition of the maiden who, forbidden to marry her lover, leaped to her death from its precipitous height. The story, told in a breezy manner in a newspaper some years ago. is perhaps more interesting reading than the same story related in more dignified language. The story alluded to is as follows: "A Dakotah maiden, Wenona, camped at the foot of the rock with her family once upon a time, as they say in the fairy tales.