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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A7D_the-attack-on-the-brown-family_Springfield-MN.html
The Joseph Brown family with son Jonathan and daughter Oratia were early settlers on a farm five miles west of here along the Shetek Trail. The family fed and over-nighted guests, operating their home as a traveler's inn. Upon hearing news of Dako…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A79_jonathan-brown-and-the-shetek-trail_Springfield-MN.html
In the 1850s there was a land boom in southern Minnesota. Jonathan Brown, 37 years old, filed on land along the Cottonwood River in what is now Burnstown Township. (S 1/2 of SW 1/4, Sec. 15; N 1/2 of NW 1/4 of Sec. 22)
Jonathan picked a good si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A4B_jackson-crossing_Sleepy-Eye-MN.html
About 5 blocks north of this marker was the location of a very important river crossing for the early settlers of this area, going from the "Shetek Trail" on the south to "Old Leavenworth" and New Ulm on the north side of the Cottonwood River. It …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A2Y_chief-sleepy-eyes_Sleepy-Eye-MN.html
[seal of the Minnesota Historical Society]
CHIEF SLEEPY EYES
(Ish-tak-ha-ba)
Sleepy Eyes, or Drooping Eyelids, was born about 1780 in a Sisseton Sioux Indian village at Swan Lake in Nicollet County. The Bureau of Indian Affairs commissioned him…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19ZW_springfield-minnesota_Springfield-MN.html
John and Daniel Burns were pioneer settlers in this area of brown County. Burnstown Township was named in their honor.
Railroad construction advanced westward and the name of the station stop here in 1873 was "Burns." A small settlement develop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19WD_essig-minnesota_New-Ulm-MN.html
On April 8, 1885 Chief Engineer Blunt of the Winona & St. Peter Railroad Co. announced that the railroad had decided to build a side track between New Ulm and Sleepy Eye for the purpose of receiving grain. The site was known only as "Siding Number…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19NY_arbeiter-hall_New-Ulm-MN.html
The town gained a new venue for public events in 1873 with the opening of Arbeiter Hall. The local Arbeiterverein, or Workers' Association, organized in 1871, primarily as a workers' insurance association. The two-story brick building had a large …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19ME_german-bohemian-immigrants-monument_New-Ulm-MN.html
This monument was erected in 1991 by the German-Bohemian Heritage Society to commemorate the immigrants to this region from the German speaking western rim of present-day Czechoslovakia. They emigrated from the counties of Bischofteinitz, Mies and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19LF_defenders-state-monument_New-Ulm-MN.html
This monument is erected by the State of Minnesota to commemorate the battles and incidents of the Sioux Indian War of 1862, which particularly relate to the town of New Ulm.1890.Honored be the memory of the citizens of Blue Earth, Nicollet, Le Su…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19KW_lest-we-forget_New-Ulm-MN.html
In 1914, two four-inch naval cannon barrels, each with a pyramid of balls, were placed on the courthouse grounds as a tribute to all Brown County citizens who served their nation in time of conflict. The United States Government reclaimed them in …