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In recalling the many saloons of the pre-Prohibition era in Bemidji, it is easy to think of the robust bartenders and saloon keepers as owners of the property, but this was seldom the case.
One can only wonder what Charley Miles would think of the Northwest Minnesota Foundation building these days — one of the oldest buildings in town.
Summer resorts on the Southern Railway, sorting out an unattended death, help prosecuting domestic violence cases and more were reported on this day in Johnson City history.
The village of less than 500 people in 1898 became a boom town by 1900 with some 10,000 lumberjacks within a 10-mile radius of the town. Bemidji’s resident population more than doubled from 1900 to 1910. The housing supply simply could not keep up with demand.