Paynesville Fort
In August 1862 during the Sioux Outbreak, home guards built but soon abandoned a sod fort just east of here. On the night of September 13, Indians here surprised a small harvesting party, burned the buildings, and wounded John Boyland, but all the whites finally escaped. Troops garrisoned the fort from October 1862 to May 1864.
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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