1918 Map of Terrebonne

About this map

The Red Lake River and Clearwater River define the hydraulic character of this northern Minnesota landscape, where an extensive network of ditches indicates early twentieth-century efforts to drain the marshy terrain for agriculture. Compiled as a progressive military map, the sheet captures the region during a period of steady rail expansion, with the Great Northern and the Minneapolis St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railroads intersecting near the settlement of Plummer. Small rural nodes like Terrebonne and Brooks serve as local hubs, surrounded by numerous unidentified schools and a small church that reflect the scattered homesteading pattern of the era. The map also records the political landscape at the junction of the Pennington, Red Lake, and Polk county lines.