Brookpark (US-MN)

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Brook Park is a city in Pine County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 139 at the 2010 census.[6]

Minnesota State Highways 23 and 107 are two of the main routes in the community.

History

Founded as a lumber camp in the 1870s, Brook Park was incorporated as a township on April 18, 1894; and as a village on October 1, 1919.[9] On September 1, 1894 the township and surrounding area were devastated in the Great Hinckley Fire. A monument to the Brook Park victims of the fire is located in the town cemetery just southwest of town.

Brookpark is a Pine County Discontinued Post Office (DPO). It operated from 1894-1950, then name changed to Brook Park.

Postmark Examples

Covers and Postcards

Postmarked BROOKPARK MINN. MAY 2 1893 from Kelsey-Markham Co Timberlands to Laird Norton in Winona.