Mendota / Sibley House Association

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This wide valley intersection between the two rivers known today as the Minnesota and Mississippi has been a meeting place for people for thousands of years.

The Dakota people lived on these prairielands by the 1700s. They knew this place as ...

Mendota / Sibley House

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Mendota

In the language of the Sioux means the mouth of a river. Was the earliest

permanent white settlement in southern Minnesota. A pioneer center of the fur trade. Near

here were signed treaties with the ...