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LOUISIANA.
Several printing houses were opened at New Orleans, as
soon as that country came under the government of the
United States.
Most of these new states and settlements, at the time of
the war were but little known. The white inhabitants
were but few, and they were scattered in solitary settlements,
or in a few straggling towns and villages through
a vast tract of country, where the art of printing had not
extended.[2]
It may be interesting to notice the gradual extension of printing beyond
the region embraced above. A paper was published in Maine at
Falmouth in 1785; in Missouri in 1806; Mississippi, 1808; Indiana, 1808;
Michigan, 1809; Illinois, 1814; Wisconsin, 1831; Texas, 1834; Iowa, 1836;
Oregon, 1847; California, 1848; Minnesota, 1849. These will be found
more particularly noticed under the account of Newspapers, in the next
volume.—M.
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