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THIS FORT HAD A PURPOSE
Fort Ridgely served as a buffer between Dakota Indians on the reservations and white settlers pouring into the Minnesota River valley. Soldiers stationed here enforced treaty agreements and protected the Dakota from intrus…
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A Minority in Their Homeland For generations, the land stretching out around you was the homeland of the Dakota Indians. Through treaties in 1851, the Dakota sold all of their land in southern Minnesota. The treaties disregarded Dakota people's tr…
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IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN; IN RECOGNITIONOF THE LIVING; AND FOR THE EMULATIONOF FUTURE GENERATIONS. Erected A.D. 1896, by the State of Minnesota, to preserve the site of Fort Ridgely, a United States military post established in 1853, and es…
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Erected by the State of Minnesota in recognition of, and to commemorate the loyal and efficient services rendered to the State by Chief Mou-Zoo-Mau-Nee and the Chippewa Indians during the Sioux out-break and the civil war.
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The Stateof Minnesota tothe Memory ofMrs Eliza M?ller1877Her valor and her devotion to the care of the sick and wounded soldiers and refugees during and after the Sioux Indian outbreak of 1862 will forever be cherished in the hearts of a grateful …
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Erected by the State ofMinnesota1873Built by Sullivan & Terry, Mankato.
In memory of Capt. John S. Marsh · First Serg't Russell H. Findley · Serg't Solon A. Trescott · Corp'l Joseph S. Besse · Private Charles R. Bel…
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Arrived in 1816Becoming the First White Settler of This Community
Donated & Erected by B. J. Krahn 1940
Hazen Mooers one of the pioneers of the fur trade with the Sioux, came to the no. west in 1816 conducted a trading post at Big Stone Lake…
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1826?? Licensed U.S. fur buyer with H. H. Sibley. 1834?? Owned Little Rock Trading Post on the Minnesota River. 1837?? Interpreter for Indian Treaty at Fort Snelling and Washington D.C. 1838-39?? Guide for Jean N. Nicollet, U.S. Gov't Cartographer…
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FORT RIDGELY
Fort Ridgely both contradicts and fits the popular culture stereotype of a frontier fort. Following its 1855 completion, the Fort's primary role was to assist the federal government with an orderly transition of land ownership from A…