August 19, 1862 – A home known as Farther and Gay was a center of hospitality and happy family life for the short time Joseph Renshaw Brown, his half-Indian wife and their 12 children lived in it. On this date during the Sioux Uprising, the Browns were forced to flee their home, which was looted and burned by the attacking Indians. The ruins of the home are still standing on 145th Street between Granite Falls and Redwood Falls, Minn.
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The ruins were added to the National Register of Historic Places on Aug. 3, 1986.
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Farther and Gay Castle
These ruins are all that remain of a large stone house built in 1861 by Joseph R. Brown, frontier fur trader, Indian Agent, politician, journalist and inventor.
The house, known as Farther and Gay Castle, was a center of hospitality and happy family life for the short time that Brown, his mixed-blood Sioux wife and their twelve children lived in it.
On August 19, 1862, during the Sioux Uprising, the Browns were forced to flee their home, which was looted and burned by the attacking Indians.
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