Norwegian Minnesotan

[1][needs update] Many Norwegian settlers arrived and lived in various other locations in the United States before permanently settling in Minnesota.

As more and more new immigrants came to America there was a rapid increase in population at the original Norwegian settlements (which was helped along by a high birth rate).

Following the war, the majority of the Dakota people were expelled from Minnesota and European settlement subsequently increased rapidly.

[citation needed] Norwegians settled all over the state, but they established the first permanent settlements in the southeast.

Norwegians also made settlements in Blue Earth, Brown, and Watonwan (the "Linden Settlement"), Lac qui Parle County, the Park Region in west-central Minnesota, and the prairies of southwestern Minnesota.

[citation needed] Immigrants also came to the Red River Valley in northwestern Minnesota, settling in the counties of Clay, Marshall, Norman, and Polk.

During the early 1870s, the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad helped increase migration to the Red River Valley.

As a result, by 1875 Norwegian immigrants made up a 30 percent of the total population of the counties of Polk and Clay.

Later, immigrants also made homes in Grant, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau, and Kittson Counties.

[citation needed] By the middle of the 1880s, Norwegian migration to Minnesota began to shift to the cities.

There was a large influx of Norwegian immigrants into the city of Minneapolis from the 1880s to early 20th century, along with a less substantial migration to St.