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Nicollet County · U. S. highway 169, 3rd and Walnut, St. Peter · location approximate

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In 1857 the Legislature passed a bill for the removal of the State capitol from St. Paul to St. Peter, but the document was abstracted by Joseph Rolette, never reached the Governor, and did not become a law. The building erected for the capitol by the St. Peter Company, remodeled, still stands, one block west of here.

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.

David Rumsey 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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