HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY 73 attached to Prairie du Chien, of Crawford county, Wisconsin, for judicial purposes, and having such law and order as could be enforced from Fort Snelling. Various bills were presented to Congress calling for the organization of the territory, all of which failed until 1849. Goodhue county, being in the posses- sion of the Sioux Indians, was little affected by the various changes in state and territorial ownership. With the inaugura- tion of President Zachary Taylor, March 5, 1849, the land now known as Goodhue county, having successively passed under the rule of France, Spain- — and then France again — Louisiana, Mis- souri, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, became a part of the terri- tory of Minnesota, of which political division it was designed later, in statehood days, to become so important a part. Mention of the fact that in the earliest days of Minnesota territory, Good- hue county was a part of the county of Wabasha, completes the territorial claim of title.
