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Worthington

Nobles County · U. S. highway 59 · location approximate

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Laid out in 1871 by the National Colony Company of Toledo, Ohio, was named for the wife of Dr. A. P. Miller of the company. Worthington became a center for the sale of railroad lands. Despite grasshopper plagues and other set-backs, the Company within five years settled hundreds of families in Nobles County.

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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