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On this date in 1834, Henry H. Sibley arrives in Mendota. Hastings, born in Detroit in 1811, joined the American Fur Company when he was eighteen years old. He spent five years as manager of its store on Mackinac Island, MI. In 1834, Sibley moved to Mendota to become a partner in the company's Western Outfit, with responsibility for trade with the Dakota. From 1849-1853, he served as Minnesota Territory's first representative in Congress. In 1852, Sibley worked with the Smithsonian Institution to publish a dictionary of the Dakota language. Around the same time, he helped found the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Historical Society. He became the state's first governor in 1858. In the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 he led a volunteer army against the Dakota led by Thaóyate Dúta (aka Little Crow). Following the Dakotas' defeat in the fall of 1862, Sibley approved death sentences for more than three hundred men. President Lincoln intervened limiting that number to thirty-eight Dakota men who were ultimately executed in a mass hanging in Mankato. Sibley died in St. Paul in 1891 and was interred at St. Paul's Oakland Cemetery.

Sibley House Historic Site, Mendota, MN (MHS)

Armour Gates

December 12, 2019 By htc

On an empty, overgrown lot located at the corner of Armour and Hardman Avenues in South St. Paul sits the only remaining vestige of what was once the largest livestock operation in the world. Developed on 260 acres along the Mississippi River, five miles south of downtown St. Paul, the stockyards employed over 6,000 people […]

Highland Park Water Tower

April 3, 2019 By htc

Sitting in the shadows of two modern, sky-blue water towers in St. Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood is the most visible symbol of the city’s water utility. The Highland Park Water Tower has been a fixture in the neighborhood since 1928 when the city constructed the 134-foot structure to supply water to nearby residents. [Go to […]

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial

January 28, 2019 By htc

Shortly after news of Fort Sumter’s fall reached Washington D.C. on April 14, 1861, Minnesota Governor Alexander Ramsey, who had been visiting the nation’s capitol to address conflicts within the Minnesota Republican party, immediately offered 1000 men to the Secretary of War on behalf of the State of Minnesota. With this commitment, Ramsey became the […]

Hiawatha and Minnehaha

November 30, 2018 By htc

Just above the falls of Minnehaha Creek in Minneapolis, perched on the southwest side of its rushing waters, sits an unassuming symbol of the area’s original inhabitants. The sculpture of Hiawatha and Minnehaha has been a fixture in Minnehaha Park for over 106 years greeting visitors as they make their way to the falls. Its […]

New York Life Eagle

July 31, 2018 By htc

Perched atop the bluffs of the Summit Hill neighborhood overlooking the Mississippi River in St. Paul is an imposing bronze sculpture of an eagle clutching a rock with its wings spread as she watches over her young. One might imagine the sculpture was originally created and installed in this location to symbolize a guardian keeping […]

Witch’s Hat Water Tower

July 31, 2018 By htc

Rising above the treetops of the Prospect Park neighborhood in Minneapolis is a structure that one might expect to find in medieval times rather than in modern day Minneapolis. The Prospect Park Water Tower, also referred to as the Witch’s Hat, was designed by Norwegian born architect Frederick William Cappelen in 20th Century Revival style, […]

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