People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — A NATURAL SITE. [ARTICLE]

A NATURAL SITE.

As a town site, Rensselaer stands unsurpassed by any city. The land is level or slightly rolling, somewhat higher than the adjacent county, giving ample fall for drainage into the Iro quois. The territory immediately contiguous to it embraces the finest plantations in the county, and nearly all of the land is well adapted to the raising of such products as are consumed by a populous city. The oiiginal town was not laid out “square with the world,'-’ but was given such a deviation from the cardinal point as to compel the sun to rise regularly in the southeast. However all the additions have been platted with reference to section lines, and the larger part of the city presents a very pleasing appearance.