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Little Rapids Fur Post

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By 1804 Jean B. Faribault was trading in furs for the Northwest Company near the Little Rapids of the Minnesota River, 5 miles south of this point, and in this vicinity. His fur post of 1824 on the site of Chaska became the nucleus for the first Catholic mission in Carver County under Father Ravous.
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