On This Date in Minnesota History: November 9

November 9, 1901 – The village of Warroad, Minn., was incorporated on this date.<sup>1

1</sup>Upham, Warren; Minnesota Geographic Names, Their Origin and Historic Significance; Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minn., 1969); p. 475.

Marker Text:
Warroad

The name Warroad bespeaks the Indian heritage of this town, once one of the largest Chippewa villages on Lake of the Woods. The Chippewa fought a long and fierce war against the Sioux for the lake's rice fields. Occupying the prairies of the Red River Valley, the Sioux would frequently invade the territory by way of the Red and Roseau rivers -- a route which ended at the mouth of the Warroad River. This was the old "war road" from which the river and village derive their name.²

 ²http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM9GQF_Warroad_Minnesota

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