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Great Hinckley Fire
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The Great Hinckley Fire was a conflagration in the pine forests of the U.S. state of Minnesota that ignited on September 1, 1894, which burned an area of at least 200,000 acres, including the town of
Hinckley, Minnesota after the 1894 fire
Hinckley, Minnesota after the 1894 fire
Eastern Minnesota Railway #105 (Ed Barry's Engine)
Eastern Minnesota Railway #105 (Ed Barry's Engine)
Great Northern Railway #125 (William Best's Engine)
Great Northern Railway #125 (William Best's Engine)
The Hinckley Fire Museum
The Hinckley Fire Museum
Boston Corbett
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Thomas H. "Boston" Corbett was an American soldier and milliner who, on April 26, 1865, killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
Great Hinckley Fire
…plaque and a memorial to the 23 fire victims of Brook Park, with a tall obelisk on top of a granite marker, and a mass grave. Popular belief holds that Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett, the Union soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth after Booth's assassination of Abraham Lincoln, was rumored to have died in the fire. His last known…
Corbett c. 1864–1865
Corbett c. 1864–1865
A photograph of Corbett in his Union Army uniform.
A photograph of Corbett in his Union Army uniform.
An 1865 wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold.
An 1865 wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold.
"The killing of Booth, the assassin—the dying murderer drawn from the barn where he had taken refuge, on Garrett's farm, near Port Royal, Va., April 2
"The killing of Booth, the assassin—the dying murderer drawn from the barn where he had taken refuge, on Garrett's farm, near Port Royal, Va., April 26, 1865" (Frank Leslie's Illustrated News)