Rollingstone Colony
In the summer of 1851 the Western Farm and Village Association, comprising persons desiring to immigrate to the West, was formed in New York City. Advance agents during high water, 1852, selected this town site, then apparently on the River, and several hundred colonists, expecting to find improvements already made, arrived the same season. The colony gradually declined.
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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