Leif Erikson

Historical marker location:

75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Saint Paul, Minnesota

( Marker is on University Avenue east of Rice Street, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1949

Discoverer of America. 1000 A.D.

The US-Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux Uprising, was a conflict between the Dakota Sioux and the United States. The war resulted in the execution of 38 Dakota men, the largest mass execution in U.S. history.