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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19FK_sibley-park-world-war-i_Mankato-MN.html
On Flag Day in 1926, two German 105mm howitzer field guns were dedicated at this Sibley Parksite as war trophies and memorials to the sacrifice made by those who served from Blue Earth County inthe First World War. These artillery pieces were capt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19CU_lincoln-park_Mankato-MN.html
The desire to honor the memory of Mankato's Civil War dead prompted a citizens' committee headed by John Ray to purchase the triangular parcel of land in the Warren's Addition, bordered by Broad, Lincoln and Grove streets, and dominated by a massi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19CD_washington-park-fourth-street-route-depot-grounds_Mankato-MN.html
Washington Park During the summer of 1868, the Minnesota Valley Railway Company contracted more than 500 people to grade and lay ties and tracks from Kasota to Mankato, reaching Mankato October 3, 1868.
The mainline was known as the "Fourth St…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1994_sinclair-lewis-house_Mankato-MN.html
This brick home sheltered the renowned novelist Sinclair Lewis in 1919. A native of Minnesota, Lewis worked on the famed book, "Main Street," while residing here. Lewis was the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM198D_sibley-park_Mankato-MN.html
On October 3, 1887 the City of Mankato purchased 120 acres for $13,088 at the confluence of the Blue Earth and Minnesota Rivers to create Mankato's first park. Sibley Park was named for Henry Hastings Sibley (later Minnesota's first Governor) who …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM194H_hubbard-house_Mankato-MN.html
Rensselaer Dean Hubbard, successful entrepreneur and civic leader, built his house on Broad Street in three stages: in 1871, 1888 and 1905. During thelate 19th century, many of Mankato's captains of industry and commerce established their residenc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME8Z_amos-owen-garden-of-american-indian-horticulture_Mankato-MN.html
Philosophy.Amos Owen was a Dakota elder and spiritual leader who wanted to preserve and restore traditional Dakota beliefs and practices. He believed that the suppression of Indian peoples had led to many parts of the culture being almost forgotte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBGE_the-first-mahkato-memorial-wacipi_Mankato-MN.html
This memorial is to honor those Dakota who created the First Mahkato Wacipi in 1972.
The Wacipi is to remember the thirty-eight Dakota executed in Mankato in 1862 and to create a spirit of reconciliation between the people of Mankato and the Da…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM97O_dakota-sioux-memorial-1862_Mankato-MN.html
The last act of the Minnesota Dakota (Sioux) War took place here in Mankato on December 26, 1862 when thirty-eight Dakota Indians died in a mass execution on this site.
The Dakota War was a culmination of years of friction between Dakota and wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM94M_ho-chunk-winnebago_Mankato-MN.html
Through treaty negotiations, the Ho-Chunk or Winnebago moved their homes to Blue Earth County in 1855, and by 1863 they were gone. Parts of what would become Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois had been their homeland for centuries. European explore…