The history of Clinton County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns &c., biographical sketches of citizens . in attraction to that portion of the Northwest lying west ofLake Michigan, now included in the State of Wisconsin, was its alluvialwealth. Copper ore was found about Lake Superior. For some time thisregion was attached to Michigan for judiciary- purposes, but in 183(5 wasmade a territorv, then including Minnesota and Iowa. The latter Statewas detached two years later. In 1848, Wisconsin was admitted as aState, Madison being made the capital. We have now traced the
The history of Clinton County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns &c., biographical sketches of citizens . in attraction to that portion of the Northwest lying west ofLake Michigan, now included in the State of Wisconsin, was its alluvialwealth. Copper ore was found about Lake Superior. For some time thisregion was attached to Michigan for judiciary- purposes, but in 183(5 wasmade a territorv, then including Minnesota and Iowa. The latter Statewas detached two years later. In 1848, Wisconsin was admitted as aState, Madison being made the capital. We have now traced the variousdivisions of the Northwest Territory (save a little in Minnesota) fromthe time it was a unit comprising this vast territory, until circumstancescompelled its present division. THE IS^OETHWEST TERRITORY. 79 PRESENT COXDITIOX OF THE NORTHWEST Preceding- chapters have brought us to the close of the Black Hawk?war, and we now turn to the contemphition of the growth and prosperityof the Northwest under the smile of peace and the blessings of our civili-zation. The pioneers of this region date events back to the deep snow. OLD FOKT DEAR^RN, 1830. of 1831, no one arriving here since that date taking first honors. Theinciting cause of the immigration which overflowed the prairies early inthe 30s was the reports of the marvelous beauty and fertility of theregion distributed through the East by those who had participated in theBlack Hawk campaign with Gen. Scott. Chicago and Milwaukee thenhad a few hundred inhabitants, and Gurdon S. Hubbards trail from theformer city to Kaskaskia led almost through a wilderness. Vegetablesand clothing were largely distributed through the regions adjoining the 80 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. lakes by steamers from the Ohio towns. There are men now living inIllinois who came to the state when barely an acre was in cultivation,and a man now prominent in the business circles of Chicago looked overthe swampy, cheerless site of that metropolis in 1818 and
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