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Sioux Falls,Dakota - Minnehaha County - 1861 - Dakota Land Company Stock Certificate *Territorial* :

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Sioux Falls,Dakota - Minnehaha County - 1861 - Dakota Land Company Stock Certificate *Territorial* :
Incorporated in May, 23, 1857, certificate no. 679 issued to J.B. A. Haynes for eight shares on April 29, 1861. Signed by T.B. Cainfill as Secretary, with no signature for President. Small vignette of an eagle with an american flag in his talons, capturing a snake, with an oceangoing vessel on its right and a mill on its left. Black border and print with very faint seal embossed at upper right corner. Uncancelled. No printer noted. Datelined Saint Paul (MN). This stock was issued in the year that Dakota Territory was established, which included the two states that carry the name today, as well as parts of eastern Wyoming and eastern Montana. Land speculators and farmers began streaming into the Dakotas as early as the 1850s. This stock is undoubtedly one of the land companies formed to take advantage of the new lands being offered for sale. The Territory was opened wide when a treaty with the Sioux Indians made the land between the Big Sioux and the Missouri rivers available for settlers.