Sam Brown Memorial State Wayside

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Fort Wadsworth Agency and Scout Headquarters Building

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The Fort Wadsworth Agency and Scout Headquarters Building from the west
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Location 796 W. Broadway Avenue, Browns Valley, Minnesota [1]
Coordinates 45°35′45″N96°50′27″W / 45.59583°N 96.84083°W / 45.59583; -96.84083 Coordinates: 45°35′45″N96°50′27″W / 45.59583°N 96.84083°W / 45.59583; -96.84083
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built 1864
NRHP reference # 86001672 [2]
Designated  July 17, 1986

Sam Brown Memorial State Wayside is a historical park in Browns Valley, Minnesota, United States, established in 1929 to honor frontiersman Sam Brown (1845–1925). On April 19, 1866, Brown rode 55 miles (89 km) to warn other settlers of an impending attack by Native Americans, and when the threat proved false he rode back through a spring blizzard to intercept his dispatch to the U.S. Army, suffering injuries that left him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. [3]

Browns Valley, Minnesota City in Minnesota, United States

Browns Valley is a city in Traverse County, Minnesota, United States, adjacent to the South Dakota border. The population was 589 at the 2010 census.

Samuel Jerome Brown, better known as Sam Brown, was an American frontiersman and settler in Minnesota and Dakota Territory. He earned regional fame as the "Paul Revere of the West" or the "Prairie Paul Revere" for riding 150 miles (240 km) on the night of April 19–20, 1866, first to warn others of an expected Native American attack and—when the threat proved false—back through a spring blizzard to intercept his request for reinforcements from the U.S. Army. Though the ordeal left him dependent on a wheelchair for the rest of his life, he went on to serve as an educator, civic leader, advocate for Native Americans, and historian.

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The park named for Brown includes a log building originally constructed in 1864 at Fort Wadsworth in what is now South Dakota and later moved to Browns Valley by town founder Joseph R. Brown, Sam's father. The Browns used the building as a residence and place of business. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as the Fort Wadsworth Agency and Scout Headquarters Building for having local significance in the themes of architecture, exploration/settlement, and military history. [4] It was nominated for being the only surviving log building of Fort Wadsworth, for its association with the noted father-and-son frontier figures, and as a rare example of post-and-plank construction. [5]

South Dakota State of the United States of America

South Dakota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who compose a large portion of the population and historically dominated the territory. South Dakota is the seventeenth largest by area, but the fifth smallest by population and the 5th least densely populated of the 50 United States. As the southern part of the former Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota. Pierre is the state capital and Sioux Falls, with a population of about 183,200, is South Dakota's largest city.

Joseph R. Brown American politician

Joseph Renshaw Brown (1805–1870) was politician, pioneer, trader, businessman, inventor, speculator, and Indian agent.

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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References

  1. ↑ "Sam Brown's Log Cabin and Memorial Park". Minnesota Valley History Learning Center. Retrieved 2016-04-16.
  2. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  3. ↑ Meyer, Roy Willard (1991). Everyone's Country Estate: A History of Minnesota's State Parks. Minnesota Historical Society Press. ISBN   0-87351-266-9.
  4. ↑ "Fort Wadsworth Agency and Scout Headquarters". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Retrieved 2015-06-19.
  5. ↑ Gertz, John S. (January 1986). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Fort Wadsworth Agency and Scout Headquarters Building (Report). National Park Service. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
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