Akeley (US-MN)
Akeley is a city in Hubbard County, Minnesota, USA. The population was 432 at the 2010 census.
The city of Akeley was incorporated on December 30, 1916. It was largely developed by a partnership between lumber magnate T. B. Walker and Healy C. Akeley, who formed the Red River Lumber Company in 1893. General settlement of Akeley began in 1895. After Walker built a sawmill in 1902, Akeley's development skyrocketed. The mill was once the largest in the state of Minnesota. Thomas B. Walker had intended to build the mill in what would later become Walker, Minnesota, but chose Akeley instead because of his disapproval of the bars and brothels in the Walker area.
Because of the mill, and the train depot built in 1899, Akeley became a boomtown. Lumberjacks came and went on every freight train. The population swelled from 2,000 to over 3,500 between 1907 and 1908.
The post office began in 1895 as Akely in postmaster John A. Plummer's home. Plummer was born in Indiana in 1851, came with his family to Minnesota in 1855 and to Akeley Township in 1894; the name changed to the present spelling in 1927. 56433 is the current zip code.
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Note spelling as AKELY. Mar 8 1909 cancel on postcard from Christ Bangsund to Albert Watterstorm in Two Harbors. Akely is a Discontinued Post Office (DPO) and only operated from 1895 to 1927 with this spelling.
