Thanks Anant for this post - I used these instructions for dawn 4.0 with a minor adjustment

plugin=eosio::account_history_api_plugin

should be

plugin=eosio::history_api_plugin

you may need to resync the blockchain if you encounter errors from an earlier run of nodeos:

nodeos --resync-blockchain

As explained here: https://github.com/EOSIO/eos/issues/2975