Cloquet Fire
On October 12, 1918 this city was completely destroyed by one of several great forest fires which were burning simultaneously over a wide area in northeastern Minnesota. The number of lives lost in these fires was 453 and property losses amounted to more than thirty million dollars.
Verbatim 1940 text, presented as a historical record, not current interpretation. Minnesota now calls the 1862 conflict the U.S.-Dakota War and has since replaced the wording on some of these signs.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesHistorical map archives, georeferenced via AllmapsBarry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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