Map of Northeast South Dakota

Every Roberts County border bronze sends drivers to this map: see giant map at Sisseton. Cast in 1954, it now stands at the Nicollet Tower and Interpretive Center west of town. One label near the foot of Lake Traverse reads Dickson 1815. Robert Dickson, a Scottish-born trader out of Mackinac, married Totowin, daughter of the Cuthead Yanktonai chief Wakinyanduta, Red Thunder, in 1797, raised Dakota and other fighters for Britain in the War of 1812, and died on Drummond Island on June 20, 1823.

What the plaque says

35 Mile Radius of Sisseton Legend Highways Roads Explorations Early Trails Army Forts Monuments Historic Points IndianChurch " Village " Mound Fur Posts Camps Erected 1954 by Sisseton Chamber of Commerce State Historical Society

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Joseph N. Nicollet Tower and Interpretive Center — steps away
  A tower on the edge of the Coteau des Prairies honoring the French mapmaker who drew this country in 1838 and 1839 and kept the Dakota names on the map.
• Sica Hollow State Park — 8.0 mi
  Wooded ravines on the edge of the Coteau, on the Lake Traverse Reservation, where the springs run iron-red and the Dakota tell of a good land gone bad.
• Fort Sisseton Historic State Park — 20 mi
  A stone fort on the Coteau des Prairies built to watch the Dakota after 1862, renamed for the Sisseton who scouted for it, restored by the WPA and saved again by a boy who grew up loving it.

More markers nearby

• Stones from Log Flour Mill — 3.1 mi
• Little Paul Mazakutemani — 3.2 mi
• Two Sisters — 3.2 mi
• Two Companions — 3.3 mi