50
YEARS BEFORE MINNESOTA'S RATIFICATION OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
1809
February 2,
Northeast of Minnesota became part of Illinois Territory.
1812
December 7,
Southwest of Minnesota became part of Missouri Territory.
1817
The fur trading
post of Fond du Lac in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota,
controlled by the American Fur Company of John Jacob
Astor.
1818
December 3,
Northeast of Minnesota became part of Michigan Territory.
1825
Historic Fort
Snelling in Minnesota, build and completed by the
5th Regiment of Infantry troops, at the junction of
the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.
1826
Faribault established
by Alexander Faribault as a fur trading post in Rice
County, Minnesota. Coordinates 44°18'N-93°16'W.
1834
June 28, Southwest
of Minnesaota became part of Michigan Territory.
1835
U.S.
Army colonel Albert Lea surveyed a region in Freeborn
County, Minnesota.
1836
July 4, North
and Southwest Minnesota became part of Wisconsin Territory.
1843
Bloomington
settled, near the Minnesota River in Hennepin County,
Minnesota. Coordinates 44°50'N-93°17'W.
1849
Benton County
organized in Minnesota, seat Foley.
Dakota County
established in Minnesota, seat Hastings.
Ramsey County
organized in Minnesota, seat Saint Paul.
Wabasha County
established in Minnesota, seat Wabasha.
Washington
County, organized in Minnesota, seat Stillwater.
June 1, Pennsylvania
born lawyer Alexander Ramsey, appointed first Territorial
Governor of Minnesota.
1850
Minnesota population,
6,077 residents.
Itasca County
established in Minnesota, seat Grand Rapids.
1851
Cass County
established in Minnesota, seat Walker.
Chisago County
established in Minnesota, seat Center City.
The Santee
Dakota native Americans, gave up most of their land
in Minnesota.
1852
Hennepin County
established in Minnesota, seat Minneapolis.
1853
Blue Earth
County established in Minnesota, seat Mankato.
Fillmore County
established in Minnesota, seat Preston.
Goodhue County
established in Minnesota, seat Red Wing.
Hastings (before
Oliver's Grove), laid out on the Vermillion River, seat
of Dakota County in Minnesota. Coordinates 44°44'N-92°51'W.
Le Sueur County
established in Minnesota, seat Le Center.
Nicollet County
established in Minnesota, seat Saint Peter.
Rice County
established in Minnesota, seat Faribault.
Scott County
estabnlished in Minnesota, seat Shakopee.
Sibley County
established in Minnesota, seat Gaylord.
May 15, Willis
Arnold Gorman, appointed governor of Minnesota (1853-April
23, 1857).
1854
A trading post
established on Minnesota Point in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minnesota, by surveyor George R. Stuntz.
Houston County
established in Minnesota, seat Caledonia.
Winona County
established in Minnesota, seat Winona.
1855
Brown County
established in Minnesota, seat New Ulm.
Carver County
established in Minnesota, seat Chaska.
Dodge County
established in Minnesota, seat Mantorville.
A Michigan
lumberman, Edwin Eveleth visited the 'Eveleth' area,
later a village named after him in St. Louis County,
Minnesota.
Faribault County
established in Minnesota, seat Blue Earth.
Freeborn County
established in Minnesota, seat Albert Lea.
Mower County
established in Minnesota, seat Austin.
Olmsted County
established in Minnesota, seat Rochester.
Renville County
established in Minnesota, seat Olivia.
St. Louis County
established in Minnesota, seat Duluth.
Stearns County
established in Minnesota, seat Saint Cloud.
Steel County
established in Minnesota, seat Owatonna.
Todd County
established in Minnesota, seat Long Prairie.
Wright County
established in Minnesota, seat Buffalo.
1856
Duluth, laid
out in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Coordinates 46°47'N-92°06'W.
Lake County
established in Minnesota, seat Two Harbors
McLeod County
established in Minnesota, seat Glencoe.
Meeker County
established in Minnesota, seat Litchfield.
Morrison County
established in Minnesota, seat Little Falls.
Pine County
established in Minnesota, seat Pine City.
Sherburne County
detached from Benton County and established in Minnesota,
seat Elk River.
1857
Carlton County
established in Minnesota, seat Carlton.
Cottonwood County
established in Minnesota, seat Windom.
Crow Wing County
established in Minnesota, seat Brainerd.
Fergus Falls
settled on Otter Tail River, seat of Otter Tail County
in Minnesota. Coordinates 46°17'N-96°04'W.Attractions
& Recreation : Maplewood State Park
Hastings, incorporated
in Dakota County, Minnesota.
Isanti County
established in Minnesota, seat Cambridge.
Jackson County
established in Minnesota, seat Jackson.
Martin County
established in Minnesota, seat Fairmont.
Mille Lacs
County established in Minnesota, seat Milaca.
Nobles County
established in Minnesota, seat Worthington.
Pipestone County
established in Minnesota, seat Pipestone.
Rock County
established in Minnesota, seat Luverne.
Waseca County
established in Minnesota, seat Waseca.
April 23, Samuel
Medary, appointed governor of Minnesota (1857-May 24,
1858).
May 23, Aitkin
County organized in Minnesota.
Named after English fur trader
William Aitkin, county seat Aitkin. Cities
& Towns : Aitkin, Ball Bluff, Davidson,
Farm Island, Fleming, Glen, Haugen, Hazelton, Hill City,
Hill Lake, Idun, Jevne, Jewett, Kimberly, Lakeside,
Libby, Logan, Macville, Malmo, McGrath, McGregor, Millward,
Morrison, Nordland, Northeast Aitkin, Northwest Aitkin,
Palisade, Pliny, Rice River, Salo, Seavey, Shamrock,
Southeast Aitkin, Spalding, Spencer, Tamarack, Turner,
Verdon, Wagner, Waukenabo, Wealthwood, White Pine, Workman.
May 23, Anoka
County formed from Ramsey County in Minnesota, county
seat Anoka. Municipalities
: Andover, Anoka, Bethel, Blaine, Burns,
Centerville, Circle Pines, Columbia Heights, Columbus,
Coon Rapids, East Bethel, Fridley, Hamlake, Hilltop,
Lexington, Lino Lakes, Linwood, Oak Grove, Ramsey, St.
Francis, Spring Lake Park.
1858
May
11, Minnesota MN, 32nd
state entered the Union
Minnesota
Today :
capital St. Paul. Area
86,943 sq.mi.(225.182km²), 12th largest state.
Counties 87 :
Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone,
Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton, Carver, Cass, Chippewa,
Chisago, Clay, Clearwater, Cook, Cottonwood, Crow
Wing, Dakota, Dodge, Douglas, Faribault, Fillmore,
Freeborne, Goodhue, Grant, Hennepin, Houston, Hubbard,
Isanti, Itasca, Jackson, Kanabec, Kandiyohi, Kittson,
Kootchiching, Lac Qui Parle, Lake, Lake of the Woods,
Le Sueur, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod, Mahnomen, Marshall,
Martin, Meeker, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Mower, Murray,
Nicollet, Nobles, Norman, Olmsted, Otter Tail, Pennington,
Pine, Pipestone, Polk, Pope, Ramsey, Red Lake, Redwood,
Rennville, Rice, Rock, Roseau, St. Louis, Scott, Sherburne,
Sibley, Steams, Steele, Stevens, Swift, Todd, Traverse,
Wabasha, Wadena, Waseca, Washington, Watonwan, Wilkin,
Winona, Wright, Yellow Medicine.Attractions & Recreation
: Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge, Big
Stone National Wildlife Refuge, Big Stone Wetland
Management District, Chippewa National Forest, Crane
Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Cut Foot Sioux Visitor
Center, Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District,
Duluth-Superior Harbor, Edge of the Wilderness Scenic
Byway, Fergus Falls Wetland Management District, Grand
Portage National Monument, Hamden Slough National
Wildlife Refuge, Keweenaw Waterway, Lac Qui Parle
Lake, Lake Traverse, Litchfield Wetland Management
District, Mile Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, Minneapolis
Grand Rounds, Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge,
Minnesota Valley Wetland Management District, Mississippi
National River & Recreation Area, Mississippi
River Headwaters Lakes Project, Mississippi River
Pools, Morris Wetland Management District, Northern
Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge, Norway
Beach Visitor Information Center, Orwell Lake, Pipestone
National Monument, Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge,
Rydell National Wildlife Refuge, Sherburne National
Wildlife Refuge, Superior National Forest, Tamarac
National Wildlife Refuge, Upper Mississippi River
National Wildlife & Fish Refuge, Voyageurs National
Park, Windom Wetland Management District.
Albert
Lea city founded in Freeborn County, Minnesota. County
seat located on Fountain and Albert Lea lakes. Named
after US Army colonel Albert Lea.
Becker
County established in Minnesota, seat Detroit Lakes.
Bloomington,
became a township in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
Douglas
County established in Minnesota, seat Alexandria.
Kanabec
County established in Minnesota, seat Mora.
Kandiyohi
County established in Minnesota, seat Willmar.
Otter
Tail County established in Minnesota, seat Fergus Falls.
Polk
County established in Minnesota, seat Crookston.
Seabury
Divinity School organized in Faribault, Rice County,
Minnesota.
Wadena
County established in Minnesota, seat Wadena.
Wilkin
County established in Minnesota, seat Breckenridge.
May
24, fur trader, Michigan born Henry Hastings Sibley,
became first Minnesota State Governor (1858-January
2, 1860).
1859
Albert
Lea became the seat of Freeborn County in Minnesota.
For
the second time (1851), Santee Dakota native Americans
gave up most of their land in Minnesota.
1860
Minnesota population,
172,023 residents.
Watonwan established
in Minnesota, seat Saint James.
January 2,
Alexander Ramsey, first Territorial Governor, appointed
second Minnesota State Governor.
1861
APRIL
- BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR
1862
Civil War period
Big Stone County
established in Minnesota, seat Ortonville.
Clay County
established in Minnesota, seat Moorhead.
Pope County
established in Minnesota, seat Glenwood.
Redwood County
established in Minnesota, seat Redwood Falls.
Stevens County
established in Minnesota, seat Morris County.
Traverse County
established in Minnesota, seat Wheaton.
The Dakota
Conflict, U.S. government broke his promises and some
Dakota Native Americans went to war against farmers
and towns in Minnesota.
1863
Civil War period
Iron ore discovered
near Ely in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
School for
the deaf, established in Faribault, Rice County, Minnesota.
Lac Qui Parle
County established in Minnesota, seat Madison.
July 10, Henry
Adoniram Swift, elected third governor of Minnesota
(1863-January 11, 1864).
1864
Civil
War period
January 11,
Stephen Miller, elected fourth governor of Minnesota
(1864-January 8, 1866).
1865
MAY -
ENDING OF THE CIVIL WAR
1866
Beltrami County
established in Minnesota, seat Bemidji.
January 8,
William Rainey Marshall, elected fifth governor of Minnesota
(1866-January 9, 1870).
1867
LeRoy, platted
in Mower County, Minnesota. Attractions
& Recreation :
Lake Louis State Park, Shooting Star Wild Flower &
Historic Route.
The Shattuck
School established in Faibault, Rice County, Minnesota.
May 21, Frances
Densmore, born in Red Wing, Minnesota. Ethnologist,
music of Native American tribes
1868
Grant County
established in Minnesota, seat Elbow Lake.
1870
Minnesota population,
439,706 residents.
Chippewa County
established in Minnesota, seat Montevideo.
Duluth, incorporated
as city in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
Fergus Falls
laid out in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
Swift County
established in Minnesota, seat Benson.
January 9,
Horace Austin elected governor of Minnesota (1870-January
7, 1874).
1871
Brainerd created
as a logging camp by the Northern Pacific Railway, along
the Mississippi River. County seat of Crow Wing County
in Minnesota
Duluth Ship
Canal built, in the Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota.
Lyon County
established in Minnesota, seat Marshall.
Northern Pacific Railroad operational in Aitkin County,
Minnesota.
Yellow Medicine County established in Minnesota, seat
Granite Falls.
1872
Crookston(The
Crossing), settled on Red Lake River, seat of Polk County,
Minnesota. Coordinates 47°47'N-96°37'W. Named
for Colonel William Crooks, chief engineer of the St.
Paul and Pacific Railroad.
Faribault incorporated
in Rice County, Minnesota.
Fergus Falls
incorporated as village in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
1873
Lincoln County
established in Minnesota, seat Ivanhoe
Pipestone platted,
seat of Pipestone County in Minnesota.
1874
Cook County
established in Minnesota, seat Grand Marais.
School for the
blind, established in Faribault, Rice County, Minnesota.
January 7,
Cushman Kellog Davis, elected governor of Minnesota
(1874-January 7, 1876).
1875
Murray County
established in Minnesota, seat Slayton.
1876
January 7,
John Sargent Pillsbury, elected governor of Minnesota
(1876-January 10, 1882).
1877
Duluth city,
in St. Louis County, Minnesota, relegated to a village.
1878
Albert
Lea incorporated as village in
Freeborn County, Minnesota. Coordinates 43°39'N-83°22'W.
1879
Crookston incorporated
in Polk County, Minnesota.
School for
the mentally retarded established in Faribault, Rice
County, Minnesota.
Kittson County
established in Minnesota, seat Hallock.
Knife
Falls (present Cloquet) settled on the St. Louis River
in Carlton County, Minnesota.
Marshall
County established in Minnesota, seat Warren.
1880
Minnesota population,
780,773 residents.
Cloquet incorporated
as village, in Carlton County, Minnesota.
1881
Fergus Falls
incorporated as city in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
Norman County
established in Minnesota, seat Ada.
August 18,
Stephen Miller, died and buried in Worthington, Minnesota.
Fourth governor of Minnesota (1864-1866).
1882
January 10,
Lucius Frederick Hubbard, elected governor of Minnesota
(1882-January 5, 1887).
1883
Hubbard County
established in Minnesota, seat Park Rapids.
1884
Ada, incorporated
as a village in Minnesota.
1885
Florence (now
Ely) settled on Shagawa Lake in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
Coordinates 47°54'N-91°51'W.
Attractions & Recreation : Boundary
Waters Canoe Area, Superior National Forest, Valley
Winter Sports Center.
January 13,
Schuyler Colfax, died in Mankato, Minnesota. Republican
vice-president under President Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1873).
1886
Cloquet
(formerly Knife Falls) platted in Carlton County, Minnesota.
Coordinates 46°43'N-92°28'W.
1887
Duluth village,
reincorporated as city in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
Fergus Falls
State Hospital established in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail
County, Minnesota.
January 5,
Andrew Ryan McGill, elected governor of Minnesota (1887-January
9, 1889).
January 27,
William Carl Blegen, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Archaeologist and professor of archaeology.
1888
Bemidji, established
on Lake Bemidji in Beltrami County, Minnesota. Named
for an Chippewa Native American Chief. Coordinates
47°29'N-94°53'W. Attractions
& Recreation : Lake Bemidji State Park
Ely incorporated
as village in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
1889
January 9,
William Rush Merriam, elected governor of Minnesota
(1889-January 4, 1893).
1890
Minnesota population,
1,310,283 residents.
Ada village,
in Minnesota became a town.
Albany, incorporated
in Stearns County, Minnesota.
1891
Ely incorporated
as city in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
February 1,
Pipestone incorporated in Pipestone County, Minnesota.
February 18,
Henry H. Sibley, the first Minnesota State Governor,
died in St. Paul.
1892
Eveleth settled
in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Coordinates 47°28'N-92°32'W.
Attractions & Recreation
: Leonidas Mine, Superior National Forest
Iron ore discovered
by David T. Adams in Eveleth, St. Louis County, Minnesota.
1893
Eveleth incorporated
as village in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
Hibbing, laid out and
incorporated in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Coordinates
47°25'N-92°56'W. Named after the timber cruiser
'Frank Hibbing'.
January 4,
Knute Nelson, elected governor of Minnesota (1893-January
31, 1895).
1894
Roseau County
established in Minnesota, seat Roseau.
1895
January 31,
David Marston Clough, elected governor of Minnesota
( 1895-January 2, 1899).
1896
Bemidji, incorporated
as a village in Beltrami County, Minnesota.
Red Lake County
established in Minnesota, seat Red Lake Falls.
January 8,
William Rainey Marshall, died and buried in St. Paul,
Minnesota. Fifth governor of Minnesota (1866-1870).
September 24,
Scott F. Fitzgerald, born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Short
story writer and novelist, works e.g. 'The Great
Gatsby'.
1897
October 15,
first issue of the 'Albert Lea Tribune' newspaper,
published in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
1899
January 2,
John Lind, elected governor of Minnesota (1899-January
7, 1901).
1900
Minnesota population,
1,751,394 residents.
April 1, William
Benton, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Publisher and
Chairman of 'Encyclopaedia
Britannica'.
1901
January 7,
Samuel Rinnah Van Sant, elected governor of Minnesota
(1901-January 4, 1905).
1902
Clearwater
County established in Minnesota, seat Bagley.
Eveleth incorporated
as city in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
1903
April 22, Alexander
Ramsey, died and buried in St. Paul, Minnesota. Second
governor of Minnesota (1860-1863).
1904
Cloquet
incorporated as city, in Carlton County, Minnesota.
1905
Bemidji,
incorporated as a city in Beltrami County, Minnesota.
January
4, John Albert Johnson, elected governor of Minnesota
(1905-September 21, 1909).
1906
Koochiching
County established in Minnesota, seat International
Falls.
Mahnomen County
established in Minnesota, seat Mahnomen.
1907
September 17,
Earl Warren Burger, born in St. Paul, Minnesota. United
States Chief Justice.
1908
Ada
town, incorporated as city in Minnesota.
50
YEARS AFTER MINNESOTA'S RATIFICATION OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
MN
1808-1908 DAKOTA
COUNTY Timeline
3 Topics
1849
Dakota County
established in Minnesota, seat Hastings.
1853
Hastings (before
Oliver's Grove), laid out on the Vermillion River, seat
of Dakota County in Minnesota. Coordinates 44°44'N-92°51'W.
1857
Hastings, incorporated
in Dakota County, Minnesota.
MN
1808-1908
FREEBORN
COUNTY Timeline5
Topics
1835
U.S.
Army colonel Albert Lea surveyed a region in Freeborn
County, Minnesota.
1858
Albert
Lea city founded in Freeborn County, Minnesota. County
seat located on Fountain and Albert Lea lakes. Named
after US Army colonel Albert Lea.
1859
Albert
Lea became the seat of Freeborn County in Minnesota.
1878
Albert
Lea incorporated as village in
Freeborn County, Minnesota. Coordinates 43°39'N-83°22'W.
1897
October 15,
first issue of the 'Albert Lea Tribune' newspaper,
published in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
MN
1808-1908 ST.
LOUIS COUNTY Timeline
1 Topic
1893
Hibbing,
laid out and incorporated in St. Louis County, MN. Coordinates
47°25'N-92°56'W. Named after the timber cruiser
'Frank Hibbing'.
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