This map shows the village of Traverse des Sioux along the Minnesota River. The village was named after the Traverse des Sioux, which was the French name for the crossing site of the river by the Dakota people who lived in the vicintiy.
Portrait of Mrs. Nancy Faribault McClure Huggins in 1926 at the boulder that marks the site of the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851. Nancy married David Faribault there while the treaty negotiations were in progress.
This photograph shows the sawmill of Charles Purrington at Traverse des Sioux in Nicollet County, about 1912. Purrington is the man in the center of the photograph.