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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BE4_the-joseph-r-brown-house_Sacred-Heart-MN.html
A Grand and Luxurious Home This was the first house built of quarried granite in the Minnesota River valley during the 1860s. Most structures then were cabins or small wooden frame houses. Brick and stone structures had been built at the Lower Age…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BDS_farther-and-gay-castle_Sacred-Heart-MN.html
These ruins are all that remain of a large stone house built in 1861 by Joseph R. Brown, frontier fur trader, Indian agent, politician, journalist, and inventor. The house, known as Farther and Gay Castle, was a center of hospitality and happy …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BC4_the-battle-of-birch-coulee_Morton-MN.html
600 feet south,in the ravinethe whites wereattacked by theSioux Indiansunder Mah-Ka-To Sept. 2, 1862.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BB5_caught-unaware_Morton-MN.html
??In 1862, settlers in the area of Birch Coolie Creek were living peaceful lives, having come to this area to take up new homesteads. They were in large part recent immigrants to this country. When they settled here they were mostly unaware of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B9N_veterans-memorial_Buffalo-Lake-MN.html
In honor of thosewho servedour country. Military Service Emblems 1991
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B1V_site-of-florita-settlement-1886-1912_Renville-MN.html
A general store was built about 1886 and was called Florita, being in Flora township. A post office was installed in the store with about 40 boxes. In 1898 the Flora Farmers Co-operative Creamery was started and did business until 1912. This monum…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B1B_vicksburg-cemetery_Renville-MN.html
* Vicksburg was approximately in existence from 1869 until 1878. The small village was located close to the Minnesota River (10 miles south of Renville in Flora Township or a half mile south of this sign). Within the town was a a general store, po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZK_redwood-ferry_Franklin-MN.html
On a summer day in 1862 the Redwood Ferry landing on the Minnesota River below this point was the scene of the first attack against military troops in one of America's most tragic Indian wars. Early in the morning of August 18, 1862, a large p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A5R_the-battle-of-birch-coulee_Morton-MN.html
West of crest of hilland 755 feet eastwas one of the principalpoints of attack bythe Sioux indiansunder Big Eagle,Sept 2-3, 1862.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19XH_battle-of-birch-coulee_Morton-MN.html
On the prairie half a mile east of this point, a party of about 160 troops was attacked by Sioux at dawn, Sept. 2, 1862. During the battle, the force was surrounded for thirty hours, losing over a third of its number in killed and wounded. …
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