Fort Cox
At Madelia, then a small village, Captain E. St. Julien Cox with a detachment of volunteer troops in September 1862, shortly after beginning of the Sioux Outbreak, erected an octagonal log fort. It was given the name of its builder, and was garrisoned by Minnesota troops for some months.
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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