The world: historical and actual . VIEW OP GRAND RAPIDS formed a part of the Northwest Territory fromthat time until 1800, when it was included in In-diana. Michigan Territory was organised in 1805,and General Hull appointed first governor. He great variety of products, and in the aggregate real-ize handsome returns for their industry. Lansingis the capital, and Detroit and Grand Rapids are itschief cities. The State University, at Ann Arbor, ah-* STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 607 ranks with Yale, Harvard, and Cornell, as a reallygreat seat of learning. It has several flourishin
The world: historical and actual . VIEW OP GRAND RAPIDS formed a part of the Northwest Territory fromthat time until 1800, when it was included in In-diana. Michigan Territory was organised in 1805,and General Hull appointed first governor. He great variety of products, and in the aggregate real-ize handsome returns for their industry. Lansingis the capital, and Detroit and Grand Rapids are itschief cities. The State University, at Ann Arbor, ah-* STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 607 ranks with Yale, Harvard, and Cornell, as a reallygreat seat of learning. It has several flourishingdenominational colleges also. It has furnished onepoet of very considerable reputation, Will M. MINNESOTA. Minnesota is very largely peopled by Scandina-vians, and in view of its great staple might well in 1823. A Swiss settlement was effected near therea short time after. The territory was organized byCongress in 1849, with Alexander Ramsey, who wasSecretary of War under President Hayes, as firstgovernor. It was admitted to the Union as a statein 1858. In 1862 occurred the horrible Sioux massa-cre, in which not less than 1,000 whites, mostlywomen and children, were killed. The Sioux wereremoved from the state, and no trouble has sincebeen experienced from the aborigines. There aremany friendly Chippewas still in Minnesota. and Minneapolis, only a few miles apart, areboth large and rapidly growing cities, the formerbeing more commercial, and the latter more devoted
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