Avoca
This town, begun in 1878 and named for a river in Ireland, became a key point for the sale of 50,000 acres of railroad lands to Catholic colonists in Murray County through the activities of Archbishop Ireland and the Catholic Colonization Bureau. Early erection of a church, immigrant house, and other public buildings, greatly facilitated settlement.
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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