Maine Prairie Fort
Word of the Sioux Outbreak reached Maine Prairie, so named by its Maine settlers of 1856. About August 19, 1862, after forming a volunteer militia company a stockaded log fort some forty feet square was hastily built just west of this point. Some skirmishing occurred in the region, but the fort itself was not attacked.
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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