On This Date in Minnesota History: March 2

March 2, 1871 – First settled in 1851, the railway village of Hokah, Houston County, Minn., was incorporated on this date. Hokah was the Dakota name for the Root River, which is its English translation.

Upham, Warren; Minnesota Geographic Names, Their Origin and Historic Significance; Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minn., 1969); p. 238.

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