Editing Roseau County, Minnesota (section)

==History==
Roseau County was once the home of many [[Ojibwe]], [[Sioux]], and [[Mandan]] tribes. [[Archeologists]] have found artifacts within the county belonging to these tribes that date back 7,200 years.<ref>[http://city.roseau.mn.us/history/overview.htm Roseau History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925050206/http://city.roseau.mn.us/history/overview.htm|date=September 25, 2006}}, Roseau MN. Accessed May 17, 2008.</ref> More recent history includes fur trappers and [[European exploration of North America|European-based explorers]]. By 1822, a fur-trading post was established in the area. In 1885, the future Roseau City hosted four settlers; by 1895 there were 600, and the area was incorporated as [[Roseau, Minnesota|Roseau]].<ref name=HO/>

By the mid-1880s the early settlers of eastern [[Kittson County, Minnesota|Kittson County]] were feeling the disadvantage of their location, far from the county seat, and petitioned the government for a separate county. On December 31, 1894,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Minnesota Place Names |url=http://mnplaces.mnhs.org/upham/county.cfm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620201420/http://mnplaces.mnhs.org/upham/county.cfm |archive-date=June 20, 2012 |access-date=April 3, 2019 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society}}</ref> Governor [[Knute Nelson]] proclaimed the eastern portion of Kittson a new county, to be named Roseau.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Upham |first=Warren |url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog |title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |year=1920 |page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n489 470]}}</ref> On February 11, 1896, the next governor, [[David Marston Clough]], added part of [[Beltrami County, Minnesota|Beltrami County]] to Roseau County. Roseau was named the county seat.<ref name="HO">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060925050206/http://city.roseau.mn.us/history/overview.htm Historical Overview (accessed April 3, 2019)]</ref>