Grand Portage Trail

Cook County · U. S. highway 61, 1 mile south of the International Bridge · location approximate

Nine miles long, from Lake Superior to Pigeon River above the Cascades. Part of the principal route to the Northwest in the eighteenth century, over which tons of furs and trade goods were carried by Indians, French and English. Recognized as an international highway by Webster-Asburton Treaty of 1842.

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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