Post Vermillion or Dickson's Post

Theophile Bruguier, whom the bronze puts later in charge, had trained in law near Montreal and came up the Missouri for the American Fur Company in 1836, learning Dakota at Fort Pierre. He married two daughters of War Eagle, Wanbdi Okicize, a Santee-born leader adopted by the Ihanktonwan (Yankton), and they had thirteen children. In 1849 Bruguier and War Eagle's family settled where the Big Sioux meets the Missouri, the farm and trading post that began Sioux City. War Eagle died there in 1851 and was buried on the bluff, and Bruguier was reburied near him in 1926.

What the plaque says

Post Vermillion or Dickson's Post 6 miles South In 1822, the Columbis Fur Company established a post at Audubon's Point. opposite the mouth of Petite Arc Creek. Later taken over by the American Fur Company. William Dickson was factor from 1832 until his death before 1840 when Father Christian Hoecken bap- tized his daughter, Louise, there on May 30th. Theophile Bruguier was later in charge. Father Hoecken was again there in December, 1850, and Charles Larpenteur was then the factor. Erected 1966 by Clay Post 3061, V. F. W., Vermillion and State Highway Commission

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spirit Mound Historic Prairie — 10 mi
  A lone hill north of Vermillion that Lewis and Clark walked to on a scorching day in 1804, now one of the few places left where you can stand exactly where they stood.
• National Music Museum — 14 mi
  One of the great collections of musical instruments in the world, on a college campus in a prairie town, built around a band teacher's thousands of horns, fiddles and curiosities.
• Ponca State Park — 30 mi
  Oak ravines and bluffs at the downstream end of the Missouri's last unchannelized reach in Nebraska, with a three-state overlook and the river's resource and education center.

More markers nearby

• Meckling & Lincoln — 5.4 mi
• Vangen Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1869- — 6.1 mi
• Charles Francois Picotte — 11 mi
• First Building at Yankton Site May 1858 — 11 mi