The Great Hinckley Fire
This Monument is erected by The State of Minnesota under an Act of the Legislature Approved April 7th, A. D. 1899 To the Memory of Four Hundred and Eighteen Men Women and Children who perished in the Great Hinckley Forest Fire of September First A. D. 1894
September 1st, A.D. 1894
On the First Day of September, A.D. 1894, between the Hours of Three and Five O’Clock in the afternoon a forest fire swept over Central Pine County devastating Four Hundred square miles of Country, Consuming the Villages of Hinckley, Sandstone, Mission Creek and Brook Park, and destroying more than Four Hundred and Eighteen human lives
In Memoriam
In the Four Trenches North of this Monument lie the remains of Two Hundred and Forty Eight Men, Women and Children, Residents of Hinckley, who perished in the fire which this monument was erected to commemorate.
Dedicated September 1st, A.D. 1900
This Monument is dedicated to the Pioneers of Civilization in the Forests of Minnesota.
Marker is on Fire Monument Road (State Highway 48) 0.2 miles east of Morris Avenue (County Road 140), on the left when traveling east.
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