This Day in Minnesota History
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Frenchman Pierre La Verendrye and his voyageurs land at Grand Portage to begin a fur-trading expedition into the region west of the Great Lakes. La Verendrye eventually establishes a trading post, Fort St. Charles, on Lake of the Woods.
The Stillwater Convention petitions Congress to establish the Territory of Minnesota. Wisconsin's recent admission into the Union meant that settlers in the area between the Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers were without a government. Minnesota Territory would be officially recognized on March 3, 1849.
On Women's Equality Day, the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial is dedicated at the state capitol. Titled "Garden of Time: Landscape of Change," the memorial is planted with native grasses and flowers and features a 100-foot trellis imprinted with the names of important suffrage leaders in the state's history.