The Minnesota River Valley has been home to many cultures. Paleo, Archaic, Plains, Woodland, Iowa, Oneota and Dakota Indians followed each other in the basin. After 1852, settlers from Europe and the eastern U. S. came to the valley looking for a . . . — — Map (db m72107) HM
In November of 1862, after the fighting of the U.S.-Dakota War had drawn to a close, those who had not engaged in battle — mostly women and children — were taken overland by U.S. soldiers from the Redwood (Lower Sioux) . . . — — Map (db m73578) HM
In Memory Of
John Other Day
Noble Sioux Chieftain
who piloted 62 whites
to safety in the
Outbreak of 1862
"I commend him to the care of a just God and a liberal government" Maj. T. J. Galbraith. — — Map (db m68144) WM
Welcome to the Joseph R. Brown Minnesota River Center.
In this restored 1879 Sibley County Courthouse is a Center dedicated to telling the many stories of the Minnesota River valley from the South Dakota hills to Fort Snelling, and of . . . — — Map (db m72069) HM
In 1852, Joseph R. Brown founded the town of Henderson after a 32-year career as a soldier at frontier outposts, fur trader, experimental farmer, justice of the peace, speculator, lumberman, lobbyist and legislator, transportation agent and . . . — — Map (db m72373) HM
This building
was erected by members of
St. Jude's Episcopal Church Congregation
The first Episcopal services were held in Henderson on February 26, 1856. The building was consecrated on July 31, 1873 by Bishop Whipple. The property was . . . — — Map (db m68178) HM
The Minnesota River Valley was ripe for conflict in 1862. Tensions between the Dakota people and the U.S. government had long been brewing over broken treaty promises and dramatic changes to Dakota traditional lifestyles. Focused on . . . — — Map (db m73545) HM
Built in 1923 this bridge spanned the Minnesota River here until it was replaced in 1984. The massive steel beams are typical of the truss bridge system used in this era. The 1923 bridge replaced the first bridge which was opened in 1894. — — Map (db m68768) HM
This is the approximate site of Eagle City which was settled in 1858 at the halfway point on the Henderson to Fort Ridgely Trail. This was the same year Minnesota became a state. A. (Michael) Cummings built a tavern/hotel which also became a United . . . — — Map (db m66949) HM
John Lind was born March 25, 1854 in Persard, Smaland, Sweden to Gustaf & Katherina Lind, who Emigrated to the USA in 1868 and settled at this location in 1872 in the homestead pictured here.
John taught school in Severance Township, was . . . — — Map (db m261172) HM
