Sevastopol
At the head of Lake Pepin just east of here, from about 1857 until about 1860 stood Sevastopol, a river town peopled by lumberjacks and raftsmen. Here logs from the Mississippi and the St. Croix were assembled into rafts to be floated down the river. Following a change in the river channel the town disappeared completely.
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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