On this date in 1838, the steamboat Ariel arrives at Fort Snelling. Among the boat’s passengers were Illinois lumbermen David Hone and Lewis Judd. The two men had traveled from Marine Settlement, Illinois to explore land near the St. Croix River, in what was then Iowa Territory, as a potential site for a lumber mill.
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1887-09-30
On this date in 1887, three months after the St. Paul Union Stock Yards was founded by Alpheus Stickney, the first trainload of cattle arrives in South St. Paul from Montana. For the next 120 years, the South St. Paul stockyards would go on to become the economic foundation of the city.
1843-10-26
On this date in 1843, the the Stillwater Lumber Company is established when John McKusick, Elam Greeley, Calvin Leach and Elias McKean sign an agreement of partnership for cutting logs. The company had a mill up and running by the following spring of 1844. As word spread of the new lumber mill, settlers began arriving […]
1989-10-22
On this date in 1989, Jacob Wetterling, an eleven-year-old from St. Joseph, MN, is kidnapped while riding his bike home from a store along with his younger brother Tevor and a friend, Aaron Larsen. Four months after Wetterling’s abduction, his parents, Jerry and Patty Wetterling, formed the Jacob Wetterling Foundation, an advocacy group for children’s […]
1859-10-21
On this date in 1839, The U.S. War Department orders Edward Janes, Wisconsin territorial marshal, to expel the Selkirk squatters from Fort Snelling military reservation. The fort’s commander had complained of the settlers selling whiskey to the soldiers. (MNopedia)
