Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S.…
May 1858 CE
Minnesota Territory had been formed on March 3, 1849.
The first territorial legislature (held September 2, 1849) was dominated by men from New England or of New England ancestry.
Thousands of people have come to build farms and cut timber.
The founding population is so overwhelmingly of New England origins that the state is dubbed "the New England of the West".