Author: Frank Reed Grover

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-12

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781391780702

Excerpt from The First Evanstonians: A Paper Read Before the Evanston Historical Society, February 7th, 1916 On the eastern boundary the winds and waves of Old Lake Michigan-then known as the Lake of the Illinois, blew and rolled as in these modern days. The calm summer sea and the glory of the sunrise, meaning then as much to the Red Man as these days to the White, and probably sometimes more, for a calm sea afforded navigation with a canoe and the Sun was the emblem of the Great Spirit. Sand dunes and scrub oak groves lined the shores from the Chicago Creek to the site of modern Davis Street in Evanston, and from there northward to Little Fort, now Waukegan, were the high bluffs ever changing their align ment with the march of time and the roar of the waves, and there was the great forest as in recent days, presenting a shore line of such beauty and interest, especially in autumn, as to cause repeated comment and description by the early writers. From Little Fort to the Land of the Wisconsins, again sand dunes and the low country with its adjacent bluffs and ravines as one sees it today; rich then as now, as experts tell us, in a greater variety of trees. Wild flowers and shrubs than any other one locality of the known world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.