Baker Homestead

Baker Homestead is a Minnesota historical marker in Koochiching County.

U. S. highway 53, International Falls near Custom House · location approximate

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Alexander Baker of Scotland, fur trader and prospector, located on this town site in 1870, to become the first settler of International Falls, and received his patent for the homestead December 30, 1884. Baker died on September 4, 1899 and was buried in what is known as "Baker's Acre" within the city limits.

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

1859 · Colton's Minnesota & Dakota (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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)
1875 · Vereinigte Staaten Von Nord-Amerika In 6 Blattern, Bl. 2. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Burritt's Sectional Minnesota (1870), 1870, covering the location of Baker Homestead, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Burritt's Sectional Minnesota (1870), 1870, 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)

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