Rare orig 1847 WISCONSIN TERRITORY newspaper MILWAUKEE SENTINEL Pre Statewhood - $200 - (Oxford, MD)

Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: http://stores.ebay.com/Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL and very rare Wisconsin TERRITORIAL NEWSPAPER, the Daily Sentinel and Gazette (Milwaukee, WISCONSIN TERRITORY) dated Oct 27, 1847. This extremely rare newspaper was printed BEFORE Wisconsin achieved Statehood, while it was still a Territory. Wisconsin became the 30th state on May 29, 1848. This newspaper contains National and International news as well as LOCAL Wisconsin Territory news and ads from 165 years ago. Wisconsin Territory was created by an act of the United States Congress on April 20, 1836. The new territory initially included all of the present day states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, as well as parts of North and South Dakota. The first territorial governor of Wisconsin was Henry Dodge. He and other territorial lawmakers were initially busied by organizing the territory’s government and selecting a capital city. The selection of a location to build a capitol caused a heated debate among the territorial politicians. At first, Governor Dodge selected Belmont, located in the heavily populated lead mining district, to be capital. Shortly after the new legislature convened there, however, it became obvious that Wisconsin's first capitol was inadequate. Numerous other suggestions for the location of the capital were given representing nearly every city that existed in the territory at the time, and Governor Dodge left the decision up to the other lawmakers. The legislature accepted a proposal by James Duane Doty to build a new city named Madison on an isthmus between lakes Mendota and Monona and put the territory’s permanent capital there. In 1837, while Madison was being built, the capitol was temporarily moved to Burlington. This city was transferred to Iowa Territory in 1838, along with all the lands of Wisconsi…

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