The Northern Pacific Depot in

Hinckley, Minnesota Hinckley is a city in Pine County, Minnesota, United States, located at the junction of Interstate 35 and Minnesota State Highway 48. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. Hinckley's name in the Ojibwe language is ''Gaa-zhiigwanaabiko ...

, United States, is a wood-framed depot built in 1895, the year after the previous depot was destroyed in the

Great Hinckley Fire The Great Hinckley Fire was a conflagration in the pine forests of the U.S. state of Minnesota in September 1894, which burned an area of at least (perhaps more than ), including the town of Hinckley. The official death count was 418; the actu ...

on September 1, 1894. The depot was built from the plans of the previous depot. It was listed on the

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in 1973. The building was originally built by the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad, which was acquired by the

Northern Pacific Railway The Northern Pacific Railway was an important American transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the Western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest between 1864 and 1970. It was approved and chartered b ...

in 1900. The building had separate men's and women's waiting rooms, a freight room, a restaurant known as the "Beanery", and a stationmaster's living quarters on the second floor. Passenger train service to Hinckley station ended on January 4, 1967, when trains 65 and 66 were discontinued between the

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and

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. The depot is now known as the Hinckley Fire Museum. The museum interprets the history of the fire that destroyed six towns and burned over . It also explains how the town was rebuilt and how the area shifted to agricultural use after the lumbering era ended.

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Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota Railway stations in the United States opened in 1895 National Register of Historic Places in Pine County, Minnesota 1895 establishments in Minnesota

Firefighting in Minnesota Railway stations in the United States closed in 1967