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Minnesota Historical Society Historical Markers

Markers erected by the Minnesota Historical Society to highlight the history of the Gopher State.
 
The Warden's House and Marker image, Touch for more information
By Keith L, June 11, 2011
The Warden's House and Marker
GEOGRAPHIC SORT
201Minnesota (Washington County), Stillwater — The Warden's House
On North Main Street (State Highway 95) south of Laurel Street East, on the left when traveling north.
In 1849, the Governor of the new Territory of Minnesota, Alexander Ramsey, urged the Territorial Legislature to provide for a "proper and safe place of confinement" for prisoners of the territory. Because of Ramsey's request, the Legislature . . . — Map (db m43747) HM
202Minnesota (Washington County), Stillwater — Washington County Courthouse
Near Walnut Street West, west of 3rd Street South, on the right when traveling west.
Minnesota's first courthouse, a three-room frame structure erected at the corner of 4th and Chestnut Street in Stillwater in 1849, had become inadequate by 1866. On November 6 of that year, Washington County voters approved funds for the . . . — Map (db m43865) HM
203Minnesota (Winona County), Dresbach — Minnesota’s “Fashionable Tour” / Welcome to Minnesota
Near Interstate 90 at milepost 275, on the right when traveling west.
Minnesota’s “Fashionable Tour.” In the years between 1835 and 1860, steamboats from St. Louis and the Illinois river towns of Rock Island and Galena carried hundreds of tourists up the Mississippi River past “a thousand bluffs . . . — Map (db m8617) HM
204Minnesota (Winona County), Winona — Sugar Loaf Bluff
On Parks Avenue north of U.S. 14 / 61, on the left when traveling north.
"The crown of the majestic Sugar Loaf Bluff is disappearing before the strokes of the utilitarian quarrymen," editorialized the Winona Daily Republican in 1886. "In a very few years that widely known landmark will be but a homely . . . — Map (db m43176) HM
205Minnesota (Wright County), Howard Lake — The Dustin Massacre
On 60th Street SW (U.S. 12) 0.4 miles west of Keats Avenue SW, on the right when traveling west.
A state of terror prevailed on the Minnesota western frontier for many months after the Sioux Uprising of 1862. Roving bands of Sioux continued to elude pursuers and attack settlers. The Dustin massacre occurred on June 29, 1863, one third mile . . . — Map (db m69855) HM
206Minnesota (Yellow Medicine County), Echo — The Wood Lake Battle
On 210th Avenue (County Road 18) 0.7 miles west of 610th Street (State Highway 67), on the left when traveling west.
In mid-September, 1862, more than 1,600 soldiers commanded by Colonel Henry Sibley marched northwest from Fort Ridgely into the Minnesota River Valley with an aim to end the U.S.-Dakota War. Word of that movement reached the Dakota soldiers’ lodge . . . — Map (db m69099) HM

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