Record Data Place Unit Type City or Town Containing Unit Ramsey County, MN Events Date Type 09/19/1865 At a great celebration in Cedar Falls, ground is broken on the ambitious Iowa Central Railraod Business/Industry 05/11/1858 Minnesota is admitted to the Union as the 32nd state Lawmaking/Litigating 05/23/1858 Minnesota puts together its new state government in its capital of St. Paul Lawmaking/Litigating 06/03/1859 - 06/05/1859 Weeks of heavy rainfall bring serious flooding to the upper Mississippi Crime/Disasters People Burial Place of Donnelly, Ignatius Loyola Gorman, Willis Arnold Johnson, Richard W. Marshall, William Rainey Ramsey, Alexander Sibley, Henry Hastings Documents Date Title 04/18/1857 New York Times, “Minnesota Preparing to be a State,” April 18, 1857 08/07/1858 New York Herald, “From St. Paul to Frazer River,” August 7, 1858 02/24/1859 Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Gold Regions of the West,” February 24, 1859 05/06/1859 Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “Flood in the Upper Mississippi,” May 6, 1859 09/20/1859 Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “A Burning Speech,” September 20, 1859 03/17/1860 T. E. Norris to Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, March 17, 1860 12/06/1862 Abraham Lincoln to Henry H. Sibley, December 6, 1862 01/19/1863 Abraham Lincoln to the Workingmen of Manchester, England, January 19, 1863 Images St. Paul, Minnesota, 1861, artist's impression Bibliography John Quincy Adams: St. Paul Editor and Black Leader Joseph Farr Remembers the Underground Railroad in St. Paul
