Sibley Historic Site

The Sibley Historic Site, from the DCHS Collection The oldest Euro-American settlement in Minnesota where four distinctive limestone buildings grace the Minnesota River bluff across from Historic Fort Snelling. These buildings mark the American Fur Company's control over the region's Dakota trade between 1825 and 1853, when Mendota was a major center of the region's fur trade. The Sibley Historic Site is on the southern bluff of the Minnesota River upstream from its confluence with the Mississippi. The site includes four of Minnesota's oldest buildings, including the home of Henry Hastings Sibley — fur trader, General, and controversial first Governor of Minnesota.