An 1868 panoramic, overhead view of St. Johns.  Note the two railroad trains leaving town in both directions, in the lower corners of the view.  There is also an interesting "cut" for the tracks in the lower left which allows a bridge to go over the tracks - probably one of the first overhead bridges to cross tracks in out-state Michigan.  The railroad was the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee, which came to town around 1857, 11 years earlier.