Editing Brown County, Minnesota (section)

==History==
Brown County was founded in 1855 in the southwest corner of what was [[Minnesota Territory]]. It was named for [[Joseph Renshaw Brown]], a member of the Governor's Council of the Territory in 1855.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q_lKAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA12 |title=History of the Origin of the Place Names in Nine Northwestern States |year=1908 |page=12}}</ref> In 1857, Brown County was divided, creating [[Cottonwood County, Minnesota|Cottonwood]], [[Jackson County, Minnesota|Jackson]], [[Martin County, Minnesota|Martin]], [[Murray County, Minnesota|Murry]], [[Nobles County, Minnesota|Nobles]], [[Pipestone County, Minnesota|Pipestone]], and [[Rock County, Minnesota|Rock]] counties. [[Watonwan County, Minnesota|Watonwan]] was broken off in 1860. [[Redwood County, Minnesota|Redwood]] was created from a large portion of Brown County in 1862. Redwood was further divided into [[Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota|Lac qui Parle]], [[Lincoln County, Minnesota|Lincoln]], [[Lyon County, Minnesota|Lyon]] and [[Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota|Yellow Medicine]] Counties in the 1870s.

In 1862, the county's 150-mile northern border was the boundary line of the Upper and Lower Sioux reservations when the [[Dakota War of 1862|1862 Dakota War]] broke out. New Ulm, the county seat, [[Battles of New Ulm|came under heavy attack]] twice by a superior Mdewakanton Dacotah force that was repulsed. Most of the town was [[arson|torched]] and most of the population fled to [[St. Peter, Minnesota|St. Peter]] and [[Mankato, Minnesota|Mankato]]. The town took many casualties, with the dead buried in the streets. In 1863, when the treaties with the eastern Dacotah were annulled and the two reservations were dissolved, the county border was moved north 10 miles to the [[Minnesota River]].