The Theophile Bruguier Cabin is a historic building located in
Sioux City, Iowa, United States.
Bruguier Bruguier may refer to:
People
* Theophile Bruguier (August 31, 1813 – February 18, 1896) was a French-Canadian fur trader with the American Fur Company.
* Willard Bruguier III (born 4 December 1981) is a former American professional darts player ...
was a
Quebec native who was a trader with the
American Fur Company
The American Fur Company (AFC) was founded in 1808, by John Jacob Astor, a German immigrant to the United States. During the 18th century, furs had become a major commodity in Europe, and North America became a major supplier. Several British co ...
. He was the first
Caucasian
Caucasian may refer to:
Anthropology
*Anything from the Caucasus region
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** ''Caucasian Exarchate'' (1917–1920), an ecclesiastical exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Caucasus region
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Languages
* Northwest Caucasian l ...
settler in what would become Sioux City.
[ with ] He settled at the confluence of the
Missouri and the
Big Sioux Rivers in 1849. With him were his two wives, Dawn and Blazing Cloud, and his father-in-law
War Eagle, a chief of
Yankton tribe, and extended family. He built a number of log structures on his
claim. Bruguier took up farming and set up his own fur-trading company. War Eagle and his two daughters, Bruguier's wives, died in the 1850s. Bruguier sold a tract of land to Joseph Leonnais in 1855, and it became the original townsite for Sioux City.
[ He built this single-room cabin for his home about 1860, and married Victoria Brunette in 1862. Bruguier and his wife moved to a farm near Salix, Iowa, where he died in 1895.
In time the cabin was covered with a wood veneer on the outside and plaster on the inside. It was discovered when the Rev. John Hantla of the Wall Street Mission was tearing it down. Workers from the ]Civil Works Administration
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was a short-lived job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression in the United States to rapidly create mostly manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers. The jobs were ...
dismantled the cabin and rebuilt it in Riverside Park in 1934. Two years later it was dedicated as a memorial to the "friendly Indians of the Sioux nation who lived in peace with the early pioneers," and to "Theophile Bruguier, the first permanent white resident within the present boundary of Sioux City."[ The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.]
References
Houses completed in 1860
Vernacular architecture in Iowa
Houses in Sioux City, Iowa
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
National Register of Historic Places in Sioux City, Iowa
Log cabins in the United States
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