Donnelly Home

Donnelly Home is a Minnesota historical marker in Nininger Township, Dakota County.

U. S. highway 55, nearest point to the Donnelly House, NW¼ sec. 18, T. 115 N., R. 17 W., Nininger Township · location approximate

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Just north of here stands the home of Ignatius Donnelly, noted orator and a proprietor of the "boom" town of Nininger, laid out in 1856. The panic of 1857 and failure to secure a railroad caused this town of more than 500 to melt away, and by 1869 only the Donnelly House, erected in the sixties, remained.

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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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1852 · Wisconsin (Cowperthwait, 1852) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1855 · Colton's Wisconsin (1855) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1859 · Colton's Minnesota & Dakota (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1873 · Minnesota. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Agricultural Production by Type: Ecological Study for the Twin-Cities Metropolitan Area (Historical map archives, georeferenced via Allmaps)

Colton's Minnesota & Dakota (1859), 1859, covering the location of Donnelly Home, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Colton's Minnesota & Dakota (1859), 1859, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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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)

Donnelly Home

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