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y Its Rich History By John M. Lindley, Editor ' Ramsey County Historical Society t. Paul,the host city of the Fort Snelling, built in 1819 on the a small community on the river about AASLH meeting,contains a rich bluffs overlooking the confluence of the three miles to the south of the military history within Its borders.AASLH Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers during installation.Soon Father Lucien Galtier attendees will find many avenues a time when the area's Native American, arrived to minister to the community. In to explore the city.Situated initially Euro-American,and mixed-blood 1841 he named this place "St. Paul." at the head of practical steamboat inhabitants depended on the fur trade The U.S. Congress established the navigation on the Mississippi River,the for their livelihoods. The fort sits on land Minnesota Territory in 1849 and St. Paul early pioneers found the later channel a U.S. Army exploration party purchased became its capital with 910 residents. was strewn with too many boulders from a council of 150 Mdewakanton New treaties with the Dakota opened for industry, Consequently St. Paul Dakota in 1805.St. Paul emerged from more land and brought a rush of settlers. concentrated its energies on transporting these roots. Statehood followed in 1858, people and goods between the populous In 1839 a few hardy people who were The railroad was a prime mover of cities of the East and the vast prairie and not welcomed at the fort established mountain lands to the West. people to and from St. Paul,which — , . - -.G'il do MIK 3 too . . ... i , ..,._.....'::.--zi ,F4-:.-- - I, ,-.: .__ ,. ue-..,. - s II I r Est - l -. t • p 0.' ^ .a. ., w u. ' f Mak your reservations now to join us in St. Paul for an exciting week of networking, kno ledge, help you make connections between the present and the past, and allow i i