Tamarack House Site - Stillwater, Minnesota
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BruceS
N 45° 04.264 W 092° 48.421
15T E 515191 N 4990863
Location of early house in what later became Stillwater, Minnesota.
Waymark Code: WM6QP8
Location: Minnesota, United States
Date Posted: 07/09/2009
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Stillwater is the site of a tamarack cabin plastered with mud, built in 1839 by Joseph Renshaw Brown, who was influential in the early history of the State. Local historians agree that cabin was near the present railroad viaduct crossing at the north end of town, near Brown Creek. The Wisconsin Territorial Assemby in 1840 placed the coutny seat on "Joe Brown's claim" at the head of Lake St. Croix. - Minnesota: A State Guide, 1938, Tour 19, pgs 456-457.
The location is now marked with a historical marker with the following text:
Tamarack House
Here in 1839, in Crawford County, Wisconsin Territory, Joseph R. Brown, first settler of this valley, laid out the town of Dahcotah. The following year as a member of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, Brown secured passage of a bill setting up St. Croix County. In the election to select a county seat Dahcoth won and here Brown built Tamarack House to serve as a courthouse, the first capitol building in Minnesota.