Itasca
About one quarter of a mile south of this point, on "Paradise Prairie" where the Itasca School now stands, the village of Itasca was laid out in 1856. Equipped with a post office, stores, and a newspaper, the village competed for the county seat in 1860. It lost the election and shortly vanished.
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.
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