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Bigfork Village Hall
Bigfork Village Hall is a historic fieldstone municipal hall built in 1936 with Works Progress Administration funds to provide a government and community center in Bigfork, Minnesota, United States. It remains at its original location on Minnesota State Highway 38 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist .... See also * List of city and town halls in the United States References {{National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota 1936 establishments in Minnesota Buildings and structures in Itasca County, Minnesota City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota Government buildings completed in 1936 National Register of Historic Places in Itasca County, Minnesota Works Progress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bigfork, Minnesota
Bigfork is a city in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 400 at the 2020 census. Scenic State Park is nearby. Minnesota State Highway 38 serves as a main route in the community. State Highways 1 and 6 are nearby. History Bigfork originally began as a settlement when Damase "Uncle Tom" Neveaux built a log cabin on the Big Fork River, claiming the stand of pine there, and began logging activities. Though Neveaux reached the area in 1887, and the settlement began in 1892, officially, he was a squatter until the land was opened for settlement in 1900. By 1902, a post office was established, and in 1906, a station was added to the Minneapolis and Rainy River Railway. On January 17, 1907, less than a year after the railway stop was completed, Bigfork was incorporated as a village. Bigfork Village Hall, built in 1936 with WPA funds, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnesota
Minnesota ( ) is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west. The northeast corner has a water boundary with Michigan. It is the 12th-largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd-most populous, with about 5.8 million residents. Minnesota is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes"; it has 14,420 bodies of fresh water covering at least ten acres each. Roughly a third of the state is forested. Much of the remainder is prairie and farmland. More than 60% of Minnesotans (about 3.71 million) live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, known as the "Twin Cities", which is Minnesota's main political, economic, and cultural hub and the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S. Other minor metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas include Duluth, Mankato, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
