On State Highway 28, 0.2 miles west of State Highway 27, on the left when traveling west.
Browns Valley
The Minnesota River Valley Scenic Byway begins with the birth of the river at the Continental Divide north of here. The river winds through colorful prairie and hardwood forest, skirting by farmsteads as it starts its' journey to . . . — — Map (db m185217) HM
On State Highway 28, 0.8 miles west of 220th Street, on the right when traveling west.
On October 9, 1933, William H. Jensen, an amateur archaeologist, uncovered the badly broken skeleton of a man in a gravel pit on the plateau visible about ˝ mile south of this marker. The plateau was formed as an island in the ancient River Warren, . . . — — Map (db m185218) HM
On W. Broadway Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
A Quiet Witness to Military and Prairie Life
This log structure was first used as a meeting place and general headquarters for scouts employed by the U.S. Army at Fort Wadsworth, Dakota Territory, following the U.S.-Dakota Conflict of 1862.
During . . . — — Map (db m93967) HM
Born March 7, 1845
Long Hollow, Roberts Co.,
South Dakota.
Died August 29, 1925
Browns Valley,
Minnesota.
The "Paul Revere" of the northwestern frontier, because of his intrepid exploit of April 19, 1866. He was known as a scholar and . . . — — Map (db m93965) HM
On State Highway 28, 0.3 miles east of 123rd Street, on the right when traveling east.
This tablet marks the
Wadsworth Trail
extending from St. Cloud, Minnesota, to Ft. Wadsworth, now Ft. Sisseton, South Dakota, blazed by pioneers in 1864 — — Map (db m185216) HM
On U.S. 75, 0.5 miles south of County 20, on the left when traveling south.
Built in 1891, District No. 44 School is the quintessential one-room prairie schoolhouse. For over two centuries country schools were the foundation of the American education system, but school consolidation finally forced most rural . . . — — Map (db m101272) HM