Joseph LaFramboise Historic Marker

Joseph LaFramboise

Interpreter to the Sioux

1826  Licensed U.S. fur buyer with H. H. Sibley.

1834  Owned Little Rock Trading Post on the Minnesota River.

1837  Interpreter for Indian Treaty at Fort Snelling and Washington D.C.

1838-39  Guide for Jean N. Nicollet, U.S. Gov’t Cartographer in Nicollet Co.

July 23, 1851  Interpreter with Rev. Riggs for Sioux Indians at Traverse des Sioux Treaty.

1853  First assessor for West half of Nicollet Co.

1856  Largest land owner in Nicollet Co. – 400 A.

Nicollet County Bicentennial Commission

Located in Fort Ridgely State Park, near the Fort Ridgely Cemetery.

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