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Wisconsin was successively part of the original Northwest (1788-1800), Indiana (1800-1809), Illinois (1809-1818) and Michigan (1818-1836) territories before it became a territory in its own right from 1836 until it became a state in 1848. By 1818 the boundaries of the Michigan Territory had been extended westward to the Mississippi River. Three cou...
By 1835, the population of these three counties had grown sufficiently for Wisconsin to be authorized as a new territory. James Duane Doty, a Wisconsin land speculator who was the state's representative in the Michigan legislature, led this effort. On July 4, 1836, the Wisconsin Territory was born. President Andrew Jackson appointed General Henry D...
Doty had traveled to the land office in Green Bay in April 1836 and purchased 1,000 acres where downtown Madison now stands. He soon found a third partner who put in another 360 acres and the trio formed a corporation with 24 shares worth $100 each. On his way to Belmont that fall, Doty engaged surveyor John Suydam to quickly assess the site and ma...
Government surveyors had already laid out the township and section lines, but the city proper still needed to be platted. Doty hired a young New Yorker named Franklin Hatheway for that work. In the summer of 1837 the city began to take shape on an isthmus between two lakes. The capitol grounds were established atop the highest hill, major streets w...
Explore the Turning Points in Wisconsin History Collection [Sources: Wyman, Mark. The Wisconsin Frontier (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1998). The History of Wisconsin: volume 1, From Exploration to Statehood by Alice E. Smith. (Madison, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1973)]
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Wisconsin (/ w ɪ ˈ s k ɒ n s ɪ n / ⓘ wiss-KON-sin) is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by land area and the ...
A Brief History of Wisconsin before Statehood. Wisconsin became a territory in 1836. Before then, it was successively part of the Northwest Territory (1788-1800) and the territories of Indiana (1800-1809), Illinois (1809-1818), and Michigan (1818-1836). Its population was 11,683 when the territory was chartered in 1836, 30,749 in 1840, and ...
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Wisconsin was successively part of the original Northwest Territory (1788-1800), Indiana Territory (1800-1809), Illinois Territory (1809-1818), and Michigan Territory (1818-1836) before it became a territory in its own right (1836-1848). By 1818 the boundaries of the Michigan Territory had been extended westward to the Mississippi River.
Map of Wisconsin Territory. DESCRIPTION. A color map of the settled part of Wisconsin Territory in 1838, including an inset map of the "Entire Territory of Wisconsin as Established by Act of Congress, April 10, 1836." RECORD DETAILS.
