Photograph
Stockade and Blockhouse Replica
| View of a stockade and blockhouse replica built on the site of the original stockade erected in 1862 during a small Sioux Indian uprising in nearby Minnesota. |
| Image ID: | 38010 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1960 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Superior |
| County: | Douglas |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Wisconsin place file, circa 1850s-circa 1950s |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, color |
| Original Format Number: | PF Superior.41 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5.5 x 3.5 inches |
| Superior citizens felt some anxiety about the uprising spreading to their area and a Home Guard was organized, the stockade built, and the Governor sent Company B of the 8th Wisconsin regiment to protect the area. Superior was not attacked and, by the summer of 1863, the scare was over. The original stockade was large enough to shelter the entire town's population. The site is on Highways 2-13-53 at East Second Street. |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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