This Was Brainerd - May 3
A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1922.
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A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1922.
Minnesota's first forest reserve was established in 1900 when 1,000 acres of cutover pine lands in Cass County was donated to the state by Gov. John S. Pillsbury to become Pillsbury State Forest.