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Pomme De Terre, a Frontier Outpost in Grant County Pomme de Terre A Frontier Outpost in Grant County WILLIAM M. GOETZINGER ON A LOW, oak-studded hill overlooking a Minnesota had become regular long before small lake between the present towns of El­ the stage line was introduced. As early as bow Lake and Ashby, there stood from 1859 1823 trains of ox-drawn carts made their to 1863 an isolated building knowm as the way from Pembina to St. Paul, and after Pomme de Terre station. The unpretentious 1844, when the enterprising trader, Norman log structure, which was the first evidence W. Kittson, took charge of the American Fur of white settlement in what is now Grant Company's post just south of the interna­ County, was one of several lonely stage tional border, the traffic grew to major pro­ houses built by Burbank and Company portions. The long caravans of oxcarts, along the road from St. Cloud to Fort Aber­ carrying furs to market and returning wdth crombie. supplies and trade goods, gradually estab­ After the Sioux Outbreak of 1862 a de­ lished several definite and well-known trails. tachment of troops was stationed there, and One of these, linking the Mississippi at St. a crude blockhouse and stockade were Cloud with the headwaters of the Red River, erected. Thenceforth dignified by the name crossed the northeastern corner of present- Fort Pomme de Terre, the little cluster of day Grant County, passing Elbow and buildings served, during the troubled years Lightning lakes.- that followed, as one of a chain of outposts With the creation of a United States post which kept open the slender line of commu­ office at Pembina in 1857 and the building nication between St. Paul and the com­ of Fort Abercrombie on the Red River in munity of Pembina in the Red River Valley. 1858, this stretch of trail assumed greater With peace re-established, the fort became importance. Two other developments also once more a hotel and relay station on the stimulated interest in the route. In 1858 the stage route, and its presence gradually at­ Hudson's Bay Company began to send sup­ tracted a few scattered settlers, who in 1874 plies to Fort Garry by way of St. Paul rather platted nearby the viUage of Pomme de than via Hudson Bay, and partly as a result Terre, the first in Grant County.^ Travel through this section of central ^ Constant Larson, ed.. History of Douglas and Grant Counties, 1:499 (Indianapofis, 1916). MR. GOETZINGER is a lifelong resident of Elbow ° Grace Lee Nute, "The Red River Trails," in Minnesota History, 6:281 (September, 1925); John Lake and president of the Grant County His­ Perry Pritchett, "Some Red River Fur Trade Activi­ torical Society- ties," in Minnesota History, 5:409-414 (May, 1924). June 1962 63 of this, definite plans were made for steam­ not follow the well-knowm path of the Red boat navigation on the Red River between River trail, for according to Blakely, the Forts Abercrombie and Garry. Thus in 1859 route "was an entirely new one and prob­ the time seemed ripe for the opening of a ably located in the interest of some new stage line.3 towm sites," among which were Sauk Cen­ In that year J. C. Burbank and Company tre, Osakis, and Alexandria.^ of St. Paul combined with the firm of Allen The Pomme de Terre station building was and Chase to form the Minnesota Stage an unpretentious two-story structure, with Company and immediately set about the walls of rough-hewn logs; the crevices were task of clearing a road and building stations filled with mortar against rain and cold. On and bridges along the route. Russell Blake­ the ground floor was a kitchen, a dining ley, who supervised the operation, later re­ room, and a trader's store, while overhead called that when the "collection of horses, were sleeping quarters designed to accom­ hack drivers, station keepers, and working modate as many as twenty people. Accounts party, moved out to build the road, bridges, left by early travelers indicate that these and stations over these one hundred and were often overcrowded, and in later years it sixty miles of road, the people of St. Cloud, was found necessary to expand the space by beginning to realize what it meant for them, erecting a lean-to.^ gave us their hearty cheers and Godspeed." Bishop Thomas L. Grace of St. Paul, who The work consumed three weeks, and the sampled the station's accommodations in first two stages left St. Cloud on June 21, 1861, grumbled that "our 'Hotel' . main­ 1859, loaded with passengers.* tained its primitive pretensions. In justice, Pomme de Terre was among the western­ however, [it] must be said the beds, being most of the stations, being the second of the newer, were more tolerant of sleep than customary overnight stopping places on the those we had the preceding night. For sup­ three-day journey from St. Cloud to Fort per, fish; for breakfast, fish; even the shadow Abercrombie. With what seems true appre­ of meat had disappeared." He also re­ ciation of a beautiful site, Blakeley's party corded that the road to the east of Pomme selected a knoll overlooking a small lake in de Terre was "the worst piece" between St. what is now the southwest quarter of sec­ Paul and the Red River, being "a succession tion eighteen in Pelican Lake Township. It of swamps, corduroy bridges, holes and was a little over a mile east of the body of stumps." '^ water known to present-day residents as Another impression of the stage station MiU Pond Lake. was recorded nine years later by an uniden- Approaching the spot from the east, the "Wfifiam W. Folwell, A History of Minnesota, road left the Chippewa relay station, not far 2:163, 164 (St. Paul, 1961); RusseU Blakeley, from present-day Evansville, and passed "Opening of the Red River of the North to Com­ along the south and west shores of Pelican merce and Civihzation," in Minnesota Historical Lake, keeping on high ground to avoid nu­ Collections, 8:46-50 (St. Paul, 1898). 'Blakeley, in Minnesota Historical Collections, merous sloughs. It then swoing west for 8:51. two miles, which brought it to the Pomme ''Blakeley, in Minnesota Historical Collections de Terre stopping place. Going on from the 8:50. "Detailed descriptions of the station building station to the west it crossed the Pomme de and the fort as they appeared after 1868 were given Terre River about a quarter of a mile below the author by Mrs. Wilhelmina Burns and Mrs. Mar­ Mill Pond Lake and curving northward tin T. Johnson, both of whom lived at the site for a number of years after it was purchased and passed along the southwest shore of Ten occupied by David Burns. They were interviewed Mile Lake. From there it struck northwest to on December 29, 1931. the crossing of the Otter Tail River, where '"Journal of a Trip to Red River August and September 1861," in Acta et Dicta, 1:169 (Tulv another relay station was situated. It did 1908). •• ^' 64 MINNESOTA History tified clergyman on his way to Fort Aber­ ness at the stations was brisk. Steamboat crombie. He and his fellow tiavelers had navigation on the Red River materialized just retired to the sleeping quarters when with the launching of the "Anson Northup" "rain and wind set in such as few of us had in the spring of 1859, and the discovery of ever seen. Sleepers sprang from their beds, gold on the Fraser River in what is now seized their clothins;, and ran into a safer British Columbia brought a tide of adven­ looking room to dress. Terror was in every turers and fortune seekers bound for the countenance. The landlord was interrogated, gold fields by way of the Red and Saskatche­ and assured us it would stop sometime — wan rivers. On May 15, 1862, the St. Cloud perhaps before day — though he had never Democrat reported that "every stage from seen anything of the kind before. Meanwhile St. Paul brings passengers for . [the the commotion was about equally wdld in­ Cariboo mines] while a great many go side and out. Chairs w^ere kicked over, one through on ox and mule teams. Burbank & bedstead was broken down, a man fell part Co. are running a daily line of four horse of the way downstairs, and the tempest was coaches from this place to Red River and trumping without." * they cannot take all who wish to go." Earlier that spring mail service to Pembina had been DESPITE the crudities and hardships of increased to twice weekly.^ travel, however, traffic over the stage line Until the summer of 1862 no serious trou­ was heavy for the first three years, and busi- ble was experienced from Indians, though minor alarms and annoyances did occur. On " St. Paul Daily Pioneer, May 29, 1870. March 29, 1860, the editor of the St. Cloud ° Blakeley, in Minnesota Historical Collections, 8:61. For a discussion of the effects of the Fraser Democrat remarked bitterly, "Now that the Ri\'er gold rush in Minnesota, see ^^'illoughby M. winter is over and the Indians have ceased Babcock, "Gateway to the Northwest: St. Paul and to mob and maltreat the frontier settlements, the Nobles Expedition of 1859," in Minnesota His­ tory, 35:249-262 (June, 1957). the administiation has, as we are informed. A stagecoach on the northwestern frontier in the 1870s June 1962 65 ordered three or four companies to Fort the battle of Wood Lake in the Minnesota Abercrombie.
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