Many of you already know that the beautiful Victorian building that houses the Hubbard County Historical Museum was originally built in 1900 as a courthouse, and did not open its doors as a museum until 1978, after the new courthouse was built. You may also know that the interior remains much the same as it did 100 years ago. The walls are the originally rich green color and the tin ceiling is intact. Names of the original offices still even remain on the doors. But, do you know about the man behind this building? The architect behind this gorgeous, Victorian building was a man by the name of Milton Earl Beebe. He was the oldest child born to Justus and Harriet Beebe in Cassadaga, NY on November 27, 1840. The family lived on a small farm, and at that time, very few farmers were very well off. The children had to forgo many cultural and pleasurable opportunities, and when they worked outside the family farm, their earnings went into a family fund. Milton developed a
When the village of LaPorte, Minnesota became incorporated in May of 1908, it came after a decade of frontier struggles. The Brainerd and Northern Railway cut its grade through in the spring on 1898, and that same spring, Carl Datte came to settle on Horseshoe Lake in the spot he called home for sixty years. Shortly after, was the Battle of Sugar Point on nearby Leech Lake in Walker. This proved to be the last Indian uprising in the continental United States, but left the settlers in Walker uneasy. Nelson Daughters became the first postmaster on March 23, 1899, but the position was short-lived. Daughters was charged with illegal liquor trafficking, which went against an 1855 treaty with the Indians that forbade the sale of liquor to Indians. Daughters was then taken to Walker, but on an impulse, he slipped away to return home and resume handling the mail. The deputy sheriff at the time learned where Daughters was picking up the mail, and ambushed him, shooting and killing Da