About 13,000 years ago, glacial melt water that collected in a basin named Glacial Lake Agassiz burst through a natural earthen dike creating a huge torrent of water that carved the Minnesota River Valley as we see it today. There are . . . — — Map (db m169925)
They counted not their lives dear unto themselves
Dedicated in reverent and enduring memory our honored heroes who so valiantly served in the cause of freedom
They are enshrined in our hearts forever — — Map (db m259739) WM
In the spring of 1869 a group of settlers from Fayette County, Iowa ventured north to explore and settle in new land that was opening up in the Minnesota Valley. This party was led by Peter F Jacobson, and became known as the Jacobson Colony. They . . . — — Map (db m259743) HM
Church History
1889 Maxwell Providence Mission Church was organized at District 25 schoolhouse, Maxwell Township
1890 First church was built across the road & 1/4 mile North from this site.
1904 Purchased Methodist . . . — — Map (db m259638) HM
On September 26, 1862, 91 whites and about 150 mixed-blood captives, some of whom had been prisoners of the Dakota Indians for more than a month, were returned to Colonel Henry H. Sibley's military camp, later joyfully known as Camp Release. In the . . . — — Map (db m69118) HM
On September 26, 1862, the 270 men, women and children taken captive by the Dakota during the war were released to military commander Henry H. Sibley at this site, known from that time on as Camp Release.
Years later at the . . . — — Map (db m71384) HM
Experience showed Dakota Chief Maza śa (Red Iron) that it did little good to stand in the way of the U.S. government. He had opposed the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux but, in the end, had little choice when he and other Dakota . . . — — Map (db m164642) HM
Just two days after the captives were turned over, the brief military trials of the Dakota who had taken part in the fighting began here at Camp Release on September 28, 1862. The trials moved to the Redwood (Lower Sioux) Agency on . . . — — Map (db m71437) HM
