Pokegama Mission
On the east shore of Lake Pokegama, 3 miles west of here, Rev. Frederick Ayer and others established a Protestant Mission and school for the Chippewa in 1836. The mission met with considerable success for several years, but a Sioux attack in 1841 brought about the ultimate abandonment of the station in 1846.
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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