to continue andy's history, (warning, this may be for folklore than
history) stillwater got to pick between the prison and the university as a
consolation prize--it took the prison--more jobs. mpls, being third on the
list, got the leftovers--the university.
>
>> All right. All right. Let's get some historical facts to interrupt this
>> anti-St. Paul tirade.
>>
>> St. Paul in 1850 was far ahead of Minneapolis in its development at the
>> time, and was the territorial capital. A bill wending it's way through the
>> territorial legislature would make St. Peter the capital, but House member
>> Joe Rollette tucked the bill into his pocket and disappeared long enough to
>> allow the bill to expire, and St. Paul remained the seat of state government
>> under territorial governor Alexander Ramsey (who was elected as the state's
>> second governor after Henry Sibley's inaugural tenure after statehood in
>> 1858.)
>>
>> St. Paul wanted very much to be the capital. Stillwater didn't have a
>> prayer, although it was a lumbering center and among the oldest, if not the
>> oldest city in the territory. It isn't central enough to have been the
>> capital, and that was one reason Joe Rollette single-handedly denied St.
>> Peter its designation.
>>
>> Andy Driscoll
>> A Great Saint Paul fan of Minneapolis....but still a 5th generation St.
>> Paulite.
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