Olson Slaabakken donated this cabin to the city of Jackson in 1926. It is said to have been the first cabin occupied by the family of Engebret Olson when they arrived in Jackson County in 1860. He said that he traded a yoke of oxen and a wagon to an Irishman for the cabin and adjoining wood lot. The cabin appears on the first plat map of Jackson County in 1858 and is believed to have been owned by Bartholomew McCartney. There is a possibility that it was built by Joseph Coursolle and was used as his trading post during 1856-1857. The cabin originally stood on Section 22 of Belmont Township, where Joseph Coursolle was occupying the land when McCartney arrived in 1856 to take possession of his newly purchased claim. Following the example of Spirit Lake, a monument was sought to honor settlers of Jackson County killed in two encounters with Native Americans. In 1898, victims of the 1862 U.S.-Dakota Conflict were disinterred through the efforts of Ole Anderson and reinterred in the city park in Jackson. In 1899, the Thomas family returned to Jackson looking for the body of Willie Thomas, a victim of the 1857 attack by Inkpaduta, and Jareb Palmer led them to the location; relics found there were also moved to the park. Local lore held that the reinterment site was the original burial place of the Wood brothers in 1857. Through the efforts of Anderson, other Jackson County residents, Representative John Baldwin, and Senator H.E. Hanson, the Minnesota legislature in 1909 appropriated $2,000, available July 31, 1909, for a monument in the Village of Jackson to the memory of those killed in the 1857 and 1862 massacres. Ole Anderson, T. J. Knox, and Henry Anderson were named as the commission to superintend its erection, and it was put up in the fall of 1909 by Emanuel Haertel of the Jackson-Fairmont Monument Works. At that time it was 30 feet tall and weighed 60,000 pounds. The names inscribed were believed to be those of the victims of both conflicts, but later scrutiny found some errors. The most consistent list given is seven victims in 1857—George Wood, William Wood, Josiah Steward, Mrs. Josiah Stewart, Child Stewart, Child Stewart, and William Thomas—and twelve in 1862—Mikkel Olson, Ole O. Forde, Johannes K. Exe, Knudt Midtstad, Brita Midtstad, Lars Larson Furnes, Anna Larson Furnes, Anna Langeland, Anna Langland, Aagaata Langland, Nicolai Johann Langeland, and Knud Langland. The discrepancy arose largely from omissions and from different ways Norwegian names were expressed, and Mr. and Mrs. Lars Hjornevik may have been the same people referred to as Mr. and Mrs. Lars Larson Furnes. On June 14, 1981, a storm-downed tree damaged the monument, breaking the stone; the pieces were taken to Saint Cloud, cut, and reassembled, leaving repairs visible and the monument shorter than it had originally been.