Grand Portage

Cook County · U. S. highway 61, at Mineral Center · location approximate

A Chippewa village on Lake Superior, 5 miles northeast of here is on the site of the western headquarters of the Northwest Company from about 1778 to 1801. Through that post and over the "grand" or "long" portage passed the fur trade of the great Northwest. Watch for the trail crossing.

Verbatim 1940 text, presented as a historical record, not current interpretation. Minnesota now calls the 1862 conflict the U.S.-Dakota War and has since replaced the wording on some of these signs.

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Minnesota Historical Records Survey Project, Work Projects Administration, Guide to Historic Markers Erected by the State Highway Department Cooperating with the Minnesota Historical Society (1940)

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