He was the older brother of the first governor of Minnesota Territory, Alexander Ramsey.
The Minnesota conference of Methodism was organized in 1845, well before Minnesota became a territory in 1849.
Highway 74 follows, in part, an old route which was one of the first public roads in the Minnesota Territory.
The first assembly of the Territorial Legislature of the Minnesota Territory was held on June 1, 1849 in a hotel that was on Shepard Road.
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When Minnesota became a territory in 1848, there were few land transportation routes other than the Red River Trails, although water transportation was possible along the rivers.
John S. Watrous (died 1897), politician from the Minnesota territory
Armstrong later moved to Yankton, then a small Native American village, in Dakota Territory, when Minnesota Territory was admitted as a State.