Pioneer Monument

Historical marker location:

New Ulm, Minnesota

( Memorial can be reached from Cemetery Avenue, 0.4 miles north of 20th North Street (U.S. 14), on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1866

Civil War Monument.

The first female mayor in the United States was elected in Minnesota in 1887. Susanna Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas, but she was originally from Minnesota.