The First Colony of the United States
OLD NORTHWEST TERRITORY
THE FIRST COLONY OF THE UNITED STATES
HEREIN, UNDER
THE ORDINANCE
OF 1787, BEGAN
THE WESTWARD
EXPANSION OF
THIS NATION.
THE AMERICAN
BILL OF RIGHTS
FIRST NATION-
ALLY RECOGNI-
ZED HUMAN
SLAVERY PRO-
HIBITED. PRI-
MOGENITURE
ABOLISHED.
AND THE GREAT
NEW PRINCIPLES
OF COLONIES
BECOMING EQ-
UAL IN RIGHTS
WITH PARENT
STATES WAS ES-
TABLISHED...
ITASCA LAKE
SOURCE OF THE
MISSISSIPPI
RIVER, DISCOV-
ERED BY HENRY
R. SCHOOLCRAFT
IN 1832.
THE TREATY
OF PARIS, 1783,
PROVIDED THAT
THE UNITED
STATES' NORTH-
WEST BOUND-
ARY SHOULD EX-
TEND FROM THE
NORTHWEST
ANGLE OF LAKE
OF THE WOODS
TO THE MISSISS-
IPPI RIVER.
ITASCA WAS ON
THIS BOUNDARY.
THIS TABLE IS ERECTED 1938, BY THE
NORTHWEST TERRITORY CELEBRATION COMMISSION
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES; GEORGE WHITE, CHAIRMAN; MRS LELAND
S. DUXBURY, MRS. GEORGE BAXTER AVERILL, MRS. JOHN S. HEAUME, MRS. SAMUEL JAMES CAMPBELL,
MISS BONNIE FARWELL, MRS GEORGE D. SCHERMERHORN, VICE CHAIRMAN; CONGRESSMAN ROBERT T. SECREST,
TREASURER; REV JOSEPH E. HANZ, SECRETARY; UNITED STATES SENATORS ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG,
FREDERICK VAN NUYS; CONGRESSMAN THOMAS A. JENKINS; PAUL V. MCNUTT, E. M. HAWES, EXEC. DIRECTOR