On This Date in Minnesota History: June 8

June 8, 1857 – “The U.S. Army sold Fort Snelling to Franklin Steele for $90,000 but bought it back only four years later with the start of the Civil War.”
http://www.nps.gov/miss/parkmgmt/bomcoldwater_100years.htm

http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/minnesota/snelling.html