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Old Crow Wing

Crow Wing County · U. S. highway 371, nearest point to sec. 25, T. 44 N., R. 32 W. · location approximate

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A trading post was established opposite the mouth of the Crow Wing River just northwest of here as early as 1826 and a village later grew up around it. During the sixties the Red River trail crossed the Mississippi at this point. With the decline of the use of the trail the village gradually disappeared.

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.

David Rumsey 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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