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Learn about life at this pre-territorial mission, the development
of the Dakota alphabet and the translation of the Bible. A mission and fur post overlooked the Minnesota River 150 years ago and
today the mission still stands. Joseph Renville, an explorer and fur
trader whose mother was Dakota and father was French, established a
fur post on the river in 1826 near a wide portion called Lac qui Parle.
He invited missionaries to the area. After his death in 1846,
Dakota opposition to the mission forced the missionaries out. Managed
by Chippewa County Historical Society.
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Location: Eight miles northwest of Montevideo on Chippewa County Hwy. 13, off U.S. Hwy. 59.
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