History of Wisconsin.

I will give you a short history of Wisconsin, but prehaps you are already better learned in it than myself, but that will make no difference, as it was the first subject I could think of. It was a part of the territory, sold by France to Great Britian in the year 1768, and at the close of the Revolutionary war, it became a part of the United States; it became a territory in 1838. It is said that Lasalle a French Canadian officer, in company with Louis Hennepin, a friar, and thirty four other persons, were the first white people who visited the land now known as Wisconsin, in the year 1679, almost two hundred years ago. They were a great curiosity to the Indians, who offered them battle, but they made signs of peace and soon became / friends with them. It is one of the central states, and was admitted into the Union as a state in 1848, contains 54,000 square miles, and contains a population of 776,000. Its capital is Madison & metropolis is Milwaukee. The State belongs to what is called white pine region of North America, and is still at this present day covered in the northern and western parts with forest to a great extent, but will in a very few years be all marketed as the lumber business is one of its chief items of trade and is carried on extensively. Midway way of the state embraces In the middle of the state there are some large and very fruitful prairies, which in former years was were the abode of the Elk, Buffalo, and the Saviges, but not scarcely a vestige remains of either. Sometimes a solitary Indian is met in the thinly settled portions of the state but they will all soon pass away. Some parts of it is rich in the minerals, lead and iron. The lead mines are situated in the southern / part of the state. Most of the white inhabitants are from the Middle and Atlantic States but a very large number are emigrants from central and western Europe, principlly Germans and Irish. The leading occupations is agriculture. The wheat tract is very great and is yearly increasing to a great extent. Its climate is very healthy. One thing for which it is noted.

 

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