Pokegama, Minnesota
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The community is located between Pine City and Henriette along Pokegama Lake Road (County Road 7), between Brook Park Road (County Road 13) and Tigua Road (County Road 53).[1]
History
Originally an Ojibwa village, Pokegama housed a Presbyterian Mission ran by Frederick Ayer, claiming to print the first Christian Bible in the Ojibwe language in Minnesota.[2]
As of 2004, Pokegama held the Minnesota state record low temperature records for March (-49 F in 1897), November (-45 F in 1896), and December (-57 F in 1898).[3]
The Great Hinckley Fire of 1894 destroyed the small community of Pokegama materially and killed 28 of its people.[4]
The Pokegama Sanatorium[5] for tuberculosis operated on the south side of Pokegama Lake from 1905 to 1944.[6]
The 'city' of Brook Park, 7 miles to the north, is the historical successor of the old town of Pokegama.
References
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- ↑ MnDOT Pokegama Township Map, 2016
- ↑ Cordes, Jim (1989). Pine County ... and its memories. North Branch: Jim Cordes.
- ↑ Monthly State Minimum/Maximum Extremes, 2004
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