Minnesota, the North Star State

by William Watts Folwell

claim of Virginia, [37];

becomes part of the Northwest Territory (1787), [38];

remains in control of the Northwest Company of Montreal, [39];

British control ends (1815), [52];

part of successive territories, [58];

excluded from the State of Wisconsin (1848), [86];

treated by Congress as the Territory of Wisconsin, [86].

Area west of the Mississippi (“Minnesota West”):

ceded by France to Spain (1762), [31], [42];

retroceded (1801), [43];