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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Itasca County, Minnesota. Official Website Itasca County was first formed in 1849, upon the creation of the Minnesota Territory. The county is named after Lake Itasca, which is in turn a shortened version of the Latin words veritas caput, meaning 'truth' and 'head', a reference to the source of the Mississippi River. Portions of the...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Ramsey County, Minnesota. Official Website Ramsey County was created in 1849 and was named for Alexander Ramsey, the first governor of the Minnesota Territory. Adjacent Counties Anoka County Washington County Hennepin County Dakota County Cities, Townships & Communities Arden Hills Bald Eagle Bellaire Blaine ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Meeker County, Minnesota. Official Website Meeker County was named after Judge Bradley B. Meeker of St. Anthony. County government was set up on May 6, 1856 by the County Commissioners at Forest City. Adjacent Counties McLeod County Wright County Renville County Kandiyohi County Stearns County Cities Cedar Mills ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Carlton County, Minnesota. Official Website Under a 1854 Treaty of La Pointe the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and other reservations were established in exchange of all of the Lake Superior Ojibwe lands in the Arrowhead Region. In 1857, Carlton county was formed and organized in 1870. It was named for Reuben B. Carlton, a member ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pine County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was formed in 1856 and organized in 1872. It was named for the abundant pine tree growth across the county. A portion of the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation is in the county. Adjacent Counties Carlton County Douglas County, Wisconsin Burnett County, Wisconsin Chisago County...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Official Website This area was long inhabited by Algonquian-speaking tribes: the Ojibwe (Chippewa), Ottawa and Potawatomi peoples were loosely affiliated in the Council of Three Fires. As American settlers entered the territory, the Native Americans were pushed to outer areas. The Minnesota Legislature ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Official Website Hennepin County was created in 1852 by the Minnesota Territorial Legislature. Father Louis Hennepin's name was chosen because he originally named St. Anthony Falls and recorded some of the earliest accounts of the area for the Western world. Adjacent Counties Anoka County Ramsey Co...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Official Website On March 18, 1858, the outgoing territorial legislature created Otter Tail County from areas partitioned from Cass and Pembina, another of the original counties created in 1849. The county was named for Otter Tail Lake and the Otter Tail River. The county was not organized in 1858, nor...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wadena County, Minnesota. Official Website The newly organized Minnesota Legislature created the county on June 11, 1858. A settlement began at the future city of Wadena in 1871, and by 1873 a post office was in operation there. The settlement was designated the county seat when the state legislature organized the county on February...
This is a project for Finnish-born immigrants and for their descendants in Minnesota, USA . Brief history of Finns in Minnesota Over three hundred years ago the first Finnish immigrants came to North America and more than one hundred years ago the first Finnish settlers came to the upper midwestern States of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota (Wasastjerna, 1957). Finns immigrated to Minnesota ...
Wikipedia =Fort Snelling National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Minneapolis in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stearns County, Minnesota. Official Website The Stearns County area was formerly occupied by numerous indigenous tribes, such as the Sioux (Dakota), Chippewa (Ojibwe) and Winnebago (Ho-chunk). The first large immigration was of German Catholics in the 1850s. Early arrivals also came from eastern states. The county was founded in 1...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in St. Paul, Minnesota. Official Website St. Paul is the twin city of Minneapolis and is the county seat of Ramsey County. Burial mounds in present-day Indian Mounds Park suggest the area was inhabited by the Hopewell Native Americans about 2,000 years ago. From the early 17th century to 1837, the Mdewakanton Dakota, a tribe of the Si...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Watonwan County, Minnesota. Official Website February 25, 1860, the south part of Brown was partitioned to create this county, with Madelia as the designated county seat. The county was named for its eponymous river, whose name reflects the Dakota word "watanwan," meaning "fish bait," or "plenty of fish." The word first appears in t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wright County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was founded in 1855, and was named for New York politician Silas Wright. Most of the area's first settlers were of German and Swedish origin. Adjacent Counties Sherburne County Hennepin County Carver County McLeod County Meeker County Stearns County Anoka County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Douglas County, Minnesota. The territorial legislature created Douglas County on March 8, 1858, shortly before Minnesota attained statehood. It was named for political figure Stephen A. Douglas, who was serving as a US Senator from Illinois at the time of the county's creation. The county organization was completed in 1866. Adjacen...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Official Website This area was long occupied by the Ojibwe people, known as Chippewa in the United States. In addition, numerous Dakota people lived in central and southern Minnesota before European settlement. European Americans established a trading post by 1837 in this area, on the east side of the Mi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Chippewa County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was formed in 1862, and was organized in 1868. Adjacent Counties Swift County Kandiyohi County Renville County Yellow Medicine County Lac qui Parle County Cities, Communities & Townships Asbury Big Bend City Bunde Churchill Clara City Crate Gluek ...
This subportal is part of the State of Minnesota Portal . Wikipedia Please go to following link for further information: United States with Counties, Areas & Communities Project . Projects on Geni Cities Dayton Duluth Minneapolis Rochester St. Paul Stillwater
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Duluth, Minnesota. Duluth is the county seat of St. Louis County and lies on Lake Superior. Official Website Situated on the north shore of Lake Superior at the westernmost point of the Great Lakes, Duluth is accessible to oceangoing vessels from the Atlantic Ocean 2,300 miles away via the Great Lakes Waterway and the Saint Lawrenc...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Dakota County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was the site of historical events at Mendota that defined the state's future, including providing materials for the construction of Fort Snelling across the river and the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux which ceded land from the native Dakota nation for the Minnesota...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lyon County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was established by two acts of the Minnesota state legislature, dated March 6, 1868, and March 2, 1869. It was named for Nathaniel Lyon, an Army officer who served in the Dakota and Minnesota territories before being killed in the Civil War in 1861. Adjacent Counties Lincoln...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. Official Website Kandiyohi County is named for a Dakota word meaning "where the buffalo fish come". It was organized on March 20, 1858. Adjacent Counties Chippewa County Swift County Renville County Meeker County Pope County Stearns County Cities Atwater Blomkest
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lincoln County, Minnesota. The county was established in 1873 and was named for President Abraham Lincoln. Adjacent Counties Deuel County, South Dakota Brookings County, South Dakota Pipestone County Moody County, South Dakota Yellow Medicine County Lyon County Cities, Townships & Communities Alta Vista | Arco | Ash...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Benton County, Minnesota. Official Website Established in 1849 and organized in 1850, the county is one of the oldest in Minnesota. It was named for Thomas Hart Benton , a United States Senator from Missouri. Its county seat for many years was Sauk Rapids, at the confluence of the Sauk and Mississippi Rivers. The county seat moved t...