About 2 mi. SW of Montevideo off U.S. 212, Montevideo, Minnesota. County/parish: Lac Qui Parle.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 14, 1973. NRIS 73000981.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
Camp Release State Monument is located on the edge of Montevideo, Minnesota, United States, just off Highway 212 in Lac qui Parle County, in the 6-acre Camp Release State Memorial Wayside. The Camp Release Monument stands as a reminder of Minnesota's early state history. The Minnesota River Valley and Montevideo were important sites in the Dakota War of 1862.
On September 26. 1862, a few days after the U.S. victory at the Battle of Wood Lake, 269 prisoners who had been taken captive during the conflict were released to Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley at a spot that became known as Camp Release, which was located on a bluff overlooking the valley and the present-day site of Montevideo.
The Camp Release State Monument was the sixth of 23 state monuments erected by the Minnesota legislature between 1873 and 1929. It was the first property added to the state park system and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93202166