page_title: Akeley, Minnesota
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Akeley, Minnesota / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The Blue Ox Market in Akeley Minnesota. The mural is of Paul Bunyan's blue ox, "Babe."
context_page_description: Akeley is a city in Hubbard County, Minnesota, US. The population was 432 at the 2010 census.
context_section_description: 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 wife's 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. Now the town has fewer than 500 residents.
caption: The Blue Ox Market
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