Landmark: United States: Northern Pacific Depot

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Northern Pacific Depot - Hinckley Fire Museum

106 Old Highway 61
Hinckley, Pine County, Minnesota 55037

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Northern Pacific Depot also known as the Hinckley Fire Museum
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The building was originally built by the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad, later the Northern Pacific Railway. The depot is now the Hinckley Fire Museum. The museum interprets the history of the fire that destroyed six towns.

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As a train depot, the building had separate men's and women's waiting rooms, a freight room, a restaurant known as the "Beanery", and a station master's living quarters on the second floor.
The museum explains how the town was rebuilt after the fire and how the area shifted to agricultural use after the lumbering era ended.

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Northern Pacific Depot - Hinckley Fire Museum

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