Editing Bigfork, Minnesota (section)

==History==
Bigfork originally began as a settlement when Damase "Uncle Tom" Neveaux built a log cabin on the [[Big Fork River]], claiming the stand of pine there, and began logging activities. Though Neveaux reached the area in 1887, and the settlement began in 1892, officially, he was a squatter until the land was opened for settlement in 1900.<ref name="EOTW">{{cite web|url=http://www.edgeofthewilderness.org/tour/bfork1.htm |author=Northern Itasca Joint Powers Board |title=Bigfork: When Dinner was Big Game |year=2010 |access-date=1 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726013841/http://www.edgeofthewilderness.org/tour/bfork1.htm |archive-date=26 July 2011 }}</ref>

By 1902, a post office was established,<ref>{{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ho23eS5qjNgC&q=Damase+Neveaux&pg=PA260 |author = Warren Upham |year =2001 |title = Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia |publisher = Minnesota Historical Society Press |isbn = 0-87351-396-7 |pages =260–261 |access-date = 2011-01-01}}</ref> and in 1906, a station was added to the [[Minneapolis and Rainy River Railway]].

On January 17, 1907, less than a year after the railway stop was completed, Bigfork was incorporated as a village.<ref name="EOTW"/> [[Bigfork Village Hall]],  built in 1936 with [[Works Progress Administration|WPA]] funds, is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cityofbigfork.com/2012%20Architect%20Bigfork%20Report%20FINAL.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118054228/http://www.cityofbigfork.com/2012%20Architect%20Bigfork%20Report%20FINAL.pdf |archive-date=2017-01-18 |url-status=live |title=Existing Conditions Assessment and Preservation Plan for: Bigfork City Hall |last=Faucher |first=Laura |date=30 April 2005 |access-date=17 January 2017}}</ref>