Washington County, Minnesota - Chapter 31: 1'hincipal Events Cliuonolooica Lly a Li¬, 1881

Chapter 31: 1'hincipal Events Cliuonolooica Lly a Li¬

1680. Du Luth in June, the first to travel in a canoe from Lake Superior, by way of the St. Croix river, to the Misssissippi. Descending the Mississippi, he writes to Seignelay in 1683: "I proceeded in a canoe two days and two nights, and the next day at ten o'clock in the morning" he found Accault, Augelle, and Father Hennepin, with a hunting party of Sioux. He writes: "The w'ant of respect which they showed to the said Reverend Father provoked me, and this I showed them, telling them he was my brother, and I had him placed in my canoe to come with me into the villages of said Nadouecioux." In September, Du Luth and Hennepin were at the falls of St. Anthony on their way to Mackinaw.

1683. Perrot and Le Sueur visit Lake Pepin. Perrot with twenty men, builds a stockade at the base of a bluff, upon the east bank, just above the entrance of Lake Pepin.

Chronology

Laidlow, superintendent of farming for Earl Selkirk, passes from Pembina to Prairie du Cliien to purchase seed wheat. Upon the 15th of April left Prairie du Cliien with mackinaw boats and ascended the Minnesota to Big Stone Lake, where the boats were placed on rollers and dragged a short distance to Lake Traverse, and on the 3d of June reached Pembina.

1825. April 5th, steamboat Rufus Putnam reaches the Fort. May, steamboat Rufus Put¬ nam arrives again and delivers freight at Land's End trading post on the Minnesota, about a mile above the Fort.

May 2d, first steamboat of the season, the Law¬ rence, Captain Reeder, took a pleasure party to within three miles of the Falls of St. Anthony.

1827. Flat Mouth '8 party of Ojibways at¬ tacked at Fort Snelling, and Sioux delivered by Colonel Snelling to be killed by Ojibways, and their bodies thrown over the bluff into the river.

Major Taliaferro, Indian agent, establishes a farm for the benefit of the Indians at Lake Cal¬ houn, which he called Eatonville, after the sec¬ retary of war.

Winter, Spring and Summer very dry. One inch was the average monthly fall of rain or snow for ten months. Vegetation more back¬ ward than it had been for ten years.

1830. August 14th, a sentinel at Fort Snell¬ ing, just before daylight, discovered the Indian council house on fire. Wa-pa-sha's son-in-law was the incendiary.

1831. August 17th, an old trader, Rocque, and his son arrived at Fort Snelling from Prairie du Cliien, having been twenty-six days on the journey. Under the influence of whiskey or stu¬ pidity, they ascended the St. Croix by mistake, and were lost for fifteen days.

1838. April, Ilole-in-the-day and party kill thirteen of the Lac-qiii- Parle Sioux. Martin Mc¬ Leod from Pembina, after twenty-eight days of exposure to snow, reaches Lake Traverse.

July 15th, steamboat Palmyra arrives at Fort Snelling with an official notice of the ratification of treaty. Men arrived to develop the St. Croix valley.

August 2d, IIole-in-the-Day encamped with a party of Chippeways near Fort Snelling, and was attacked by Sioux from Mud Lake, and one killed and another wounded.

October 26th, steamboat Gypsy first to arrive at Falls of St. Croix with annuity goods for the Chippeways. Tn passing through Lake St. Croix grounded near the town site laid out by S. C. Stambaugh, and called Stambaughville.

May 24th, Sioux attack Chippeways at Lake Pokeguma, of Snake river. Methodist mission moved from Kaposia to Red Rock, Rev. B. F. Kavenaugh, superintendent.

November 1st, Father Galtier completes the log chapel of St. Paul, which gave the name to the capital of Minnesota. Rev. Augustin Ravoux ar¬ rives.

1843. Stillwater laid out. Ayer, Spencer and Ely establish a Chippeway mission at Red lake. Oak Grove Indian mission established by G. II. Pond.

goons marches from Fort Des Moines through southwestern Minnesota, and on the 10th of Sep¬ tember reaches the Big Sioux river. Sisseton war party kill an American named Watson, driv¬ ing cattle to Fort Snelling.

1847. St. Croix county, Wisconsin^organized, Stillwater the county seat. Harriet E. Bishop establishes a school at St. Paul. Saw mills be¬ gun at St. Anthony Falls.

August, Commissioners Verplanck and Henry M. Rice make treaties with the Chippeways at Fon du Lac and Leech Lake. The town of St. Paul surveyed, platted, and recorded in the St. Croix county register of deeds office.

November, amendment to state constitution, allowing any woman twenty-one years of age to vote for school officers, and to be eligible for school offices.

1879. November, state constitution amended, forbidding public moneys to be used for the sup¬ port of schools wherein the distinctive creeds or tracts of any particular Christian or other religous sect are taught.