Warroad Fur Post

Warroad Fur Post is a Minnesota historical marker in Roseau County.

Trunk highway 11, just north of Warroad River Bridge · location approximate

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One mile east of this point, just north of the mouth of Warroad River stood a post of the American Fur Company, built about 1820. The French explorer, La Verendrye and his party probably visited this region in 1732 enroute to build Fort St. Charles in the present Northwest Angle.

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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Historical maps covering this location

1869 · Johnson's Minnesota (1869) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1870 · Burritt's Sectional Minnesota (1870) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Map of Northern Minnesota, 1874. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1918 · Warroad, Minnesota (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1924 · AutoTrails Map, Minnesota, Western Wisconsin. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Warroad, Minnesota, 1918, covering the location of Warroad Fur Post, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Warroad, Minnesota, 1918, covering this location. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. 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)

Warroad Fur Post

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