Dozens of military veterans are buried at Vernon Center Cemetery south of town and in St. Matthew's Cemetery east of Vernon Center.

The Kandiyohi County Historical Society, since the 1960s, has been erecting historical markers to note important dates and ...

The New Ulm Battery, one of the city’s oldest institutes, has a new home. For 44 years, the battery’s headquarters were ...

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...

a mass hanging in Mankato in the aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. “Today we ride for the ones who we lost,” said Jimmy Hallum, who had led a group known as the Dakota Exiles Ride from ...

One year after the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Minnesota Indian Removal law, resulting in removal of the Dakota people from Minnesota. The law is still on the books.

He was one of 38 Dakota men executed in Mankato following the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. It has been in the society's collection since 1869, but out of sensitivity to the Dakota people, it is not on ...

After the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, more than 1,600 Dakota people were held in a concentration camp at the fort. In the winter of 1862, an estimated 130 to 300 died from measles, other diseases an ...

GRANITE FALLS, Minn. (AP) — Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill ...

Statue placed:Kalamazoo celebrates Abraham Lincoln historic speech with new statue in Bronson Park Written on the base of the statue was "38 Dakota Warrior ... U.S. Dakota War of 1862 in which ...

A Minnesota state park built on a notorious site of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 would be closed and transferred to the Dakota under a proposed state law. The 1,300-acre Upper Sioux Agency State ...