The fur trade declined throughout the 1850s, and Sibley and his family moved from Mendota ... House, and it restored the Faribault House in 1935. After collecting artifacts concerning early ...

The American Fur Company established a post in Mendota in 1825, across the Minnesota River from ... The DuPuis house sits in the shadow of the manor built for fur trader and slave owner Jean Baptiste ...

BLUE EARTH, Minn. (WCCO) – One person died and another is in the hospital with severe burns after a house fire Wednesday night in Blue Earth, according to the Faribault County Sheriff's Office.