City of Red Wing, MN

Red Wing is located in southeast Minnesota, and was settled by Europeans in the 1850s. Red Wing was incorporated as a city in 1857. The city was named after a famed tribal chief, who was succeeded by a Dakota tribe of the Sioux who ruled this region before the arrival of the white settlers. Today, Red Wing has a population of 16,000, and features handsome brick buildings along the banks of the Mississippi.