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Augustus Lindbergh Homestead

Stearns County · U. S. highway 52, ¼ mile west of Melrose · location approximate

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The farm adjoining this point on the north was homesteaded in 1860 by Augustus Lindbergh, grandfather of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, who made the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris May 20, 21, 1927. Augustus Lindbergh had served two terms in the Swedish Parliament before coming to America.

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.

Barry Lawrence Ruderman 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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