Historical Marker

The First Stone House

Historical marker location:
1357 Sibley Memorial Highway, Mendota, Minnesota
( Marker is on D Street, 0.2 miles north of 1st Street / Sibley Memorial Highway (Minnesota Highway 13).)
Marker installed: 1916

1835 • 1916.

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.