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History · Remer Township

Half of Remer Township’s homes were built after 1977

Most of Remer Township was built recently: 10% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1977. Below: 2 old photos and papers from 1955 on.

0on the National Register
10%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
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From Remer Township’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Remer Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Remer Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewThunder Lake resort, Remer, Minnesota-0…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story

How Remer Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Remer Township.

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A post office called Remer has been in operation since 1904. The city was named for its first postmaster, William P. Remer.

Remer is also the location of the Thunder Lake Lodge, where Al Capone stayed on his vacations to Minnesota. The room he stayed in was named McCleary Cabin, which was originally built in 1912. In 2009, a motion-activated camera captured a picture of what some consider Bigfoot in an area near Remer.

Late in World War II, a logging camp manned by prisoners of war was at the site of an old CCC camp near Remer.

Up until 1959, the Soo Line provided passenger rail service at Remer station.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Remer Township, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1950s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1950s2 items
Thunder Lake resort, Remer, Minnesota-01-19551955Thunder Lake resort, Remer, Minnesota-01-1955Thunder Lake resort, Remer, Minnesota-19551955Thunder Lake resort, Remer, Minnesota-1955
1960s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today4 recent
Beginning of the MN 6 and MN 200 concurrency2016Beginning of the MN 6 and MN 200 concurrency"Remer Welcomes You" Sign2016"Remer Welcomes You" SignRemer Depot-22011Remer Depot-2MNMap-doton-Remer2005MNMap-doton-Remer
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Thunder Lake resort, Remer, Minnesota-01-1955
Retake this viewThunder Lake resort, Remer, Minnesota-01-1955, 1955

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Remer Township’s page.

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Places that used to be

Places now gone

Gone or out of use
Steiner Landing Stripairport

Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Remer2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townInguadona TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townThunder Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSlater TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTrelipe TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.