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Tamarack House

Here in 1839, in Crawford County, Wisconsin Territory, Joseph R. Brown, first settler of this valley, laid out the town of Dahcotah.  The following year as a member of the Wisconsin Territorial...

Here in 1839, in Crawford County, Wisconsin Territory, Joseph R. Brown, first settler of this valley, laid out the town of Dahcotah.  The following year as a member of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, Brown secured passage of a bill setting up St. Croix County.  In the election to select a county seat Dahcoth won and here Brown built Tamarack House to serve as a courthouse, the first capitol building in Minnesota. 

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