This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cass County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cass County, Minnesota, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
There are 20 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. A supplementary list includes 3 additional sites that were formerly listed on the National Register.
Site of the 1898 Battle of Sugar Point, the last engagement between Native Americans and the U.S. military, which prompted changes in federal timber management. Also contains burials and archaeological resources from precontact Siouan and postcontact Ojibwe occupations.[4]
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Brainerd and Northern Minnesota–Minnesota and International Railway Depot
Brainerd and Northern Minnesota–Minnesota and International Railway Depot
Location of a key indian agency active 1851–1869, hub of the region's mid-19th-century activity. District also includes the sites of a prehistoric mound and village, an early road, the first logging camp on the Crow Wing River, and Hole in the Day's assassination in 1868.[8]
Unique example—built 1934–36—of the municipal facilities funded by New Deal federal relief programs, featuring a visitor center, wildlife museum, rock garden, and offices used by numerous New Deal services.[9]
Long-used site at a key travel junction associated with the Dakota/Ojibwe territorial conflict and the early town of Old Crow Wing, whose abandonment in the 1880s uniquely preserves the succession of the Native American, fur trade, and logging eras. Extends into Crow Wing and Morrison Counties.[10]
Railroad bridge built circa 1915 with a swing section to accommodate lumber shipping on the Steamboat River, representing the interplay of the logging and railroad industries in northern Minnesota.[11] Now carries the Heartland State Trail.
Site of an early-1850s farmhouse built for prominent Ojibwe leader Hole in the Day (c. 1825–1868), who espoused strategic enculturation as a way to advance tribal interests.[14]
Long-used habitation site containing evidence of Late Woodland period seasonal villages, historical Ojibwe burials, a logging camp established in 1885, and the original townsite of Backus (abandoned in 1902).[15]
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Pine River to Woman Lake and Longville Stagecoach Road-Widow Lake Segment Historic District
Pine River to Woman Lake and Longville Stagecoach Road-Widow Lake Segment Historic District
.3-mile (0.48 km) stagecoach road section and waystation site in use 1891–1930, associated with the staging industry, early logging, Euro-American settlement, and early tourism development in north-central Minnesota.[16]
Highly intact example of north-central Minnesota's early lake resorts, with a main lodge and 20 cabins built around 1929. Also noted for its finely crafted rustic architecture.[18]
Circa-1910 railway station noted as a well-preserved example of the Soo Line's standard second-class depots and for its associations with the establishment and development of Remer.[19]
Beach terraces on Cass Lake yielding extensive archaeological resources from repeated encampment during the Late Paleoindian/Early Archaic transition and again throughout the Woodland period.[21]
1935 headquarters of Chippewa National Forest, significant for its chinkless log construction in traditional Scandinavian style and its association with the federal work relief projects of the New Deal.[22]
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United States Forest Service, Remer District Ranger Station
Dam built 1899–1900, associated with the first and largest of the reservoirs created in the region as a federal project to control the flow of the Upper Mississippi River. Extends into Itasca County.[23]
Eye-catching 1933 gas station and motel complex, a rare well-preserved example of a business built to attract early highway travelers.[24] Now the Big Winnie General Store and RV Park.[25]
^ abNumbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
^The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
^Location derived from "Facility Details". Gull Lake Recreation Area, MN. Recreation.gov. 2014. Retrieved 2016-03-20. NRIS lists site as "address restricted".
^Johnson, Elden (1970-04-16). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Gull Lake Mound Site" (Document). National Park Service.
^Zeik, Susan; Douglas George (1973-04-17). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Hole-in-the-Day II Cabin Site" (Document). National Park Service.
^Zeik, Susan; Douglas George (1973-04-16). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Old Backus" (Document). National Park Service.
^Caine, Christy A. H. (2014-09-12). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Pine River to Woman Lake & Longville Stagecoach Road: Widow Lake Segment Historic District" (Document). National Park Service.
^Zeik, Susan; Douglas George (1973-04-12). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Rice Lake Hut Rings" (Document). National Park Service.
