Minnesota: Its Resources and Progress; Its Beauty, Healthfulness and Fertility; And Its Attractions and Advantages as a Home for Immigrants (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Minnesota: Its Resources and Progress; Its Beauty, Healthfulness and Fertility; And Its Attractions and Advantages as a Home for Immigrants

During the year 1832 the first regular mail was brought to Fort Snelling. Measures were being taken by the government to obtain a title from the Indians to the lands east of the Mississippi, and in anticipation of the event, settlements had been commenced as early as 1836, on the east side of the' river, between Saint Paul and Fort Snelling. In 1838 the Indian title to this section became extinct.

In 1843 was commenced the settlement of Stillwater, on the Saint Croix, and the erection of a saw-mill at that place. Up to this time the section now known as Minnesota had belonged to various successive territorial organizations, having no separate govern ment of its own. But on the third of March, 1849, Congress passed a bill organizing the Territory of Minnesota, whose boun dary on the west was the Missouri River, designating Saint Paul as the capital, and appointing Alexander Ramsey, of Pennsylvania, as Governor.

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