Pickwick, Minnesota
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Pickwick | |
|---|---|
 Pickwick, with the 1850s Pickwick Mill and millpond | |
  Pickwick Location of the community of Pickwick within Homer Township, Winona County  Pickwick Pickwick (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 43°58′50″N 91°29′42″W / 43.98056°N 91.49500°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Minnesota |
| County | Winona County |
| Township | Homer Township |
| Area | |
• Total | 0.64 sq mi (1.66 km2) |
| • Land | 0.64 sq mi (1.66 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0.00 km2) |
| Elevation | 702 ft (214 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 157 |
| • Density | 244.6/sq mi (94.45/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code | 55987 |
| Area code | 507 |
| GNIS feature ID | 2806366[2] |
Pickwick is an unincorporated community in Homer Township, Winona County, Minnesota, United States. As of the 2020 census, Pickwick had a population of 157.[3]
Demographics
History
In 1854, G. W. T. Grant held a land claim for the area that now holds the Pickwick Mill. His family lived in a cabin owned by an Ira Hammond, which was situated on 1,200 acres near La Moille. and modern day Highway 3.[5][6] On June 19 of that year, Jason E. Rutherford, his wife (sister of G. W. T. Grant's wife, Cynthia Higley McNaughton), their family, and Jason's brother B. W. Rutherford traveled from Ohio through Little Trout Valley in a covered wagon, where they camped at the site that eventually became Pickwick.[7] The next day, they met with the Grant family at Ira Hammond's cabin.
The Rutherfords and Grants traveled up Pickwick Valley where the Rutherfords established a land claim and began cutting logs for a cabin that would be erected that Summer by the Rutherford brothers, Grant, Edward Huttenhower, Jamies Halligan, O.B. Dodge, and Charles Howe, which became the first building built in the valley.[8] The Rutherford family lived in their covered wagon for six weeks until the cabin was complete, then the Grants moved in with them, making 14 people living in a small log cabin for the summer.
As the summer bore on, the Grants built a cabin (Where O. Sistad's property was in 1904) and moved in.[9] In July, B. W. Rutherford returned to Ohio, then in September the Grants and Rutherfords traveled to Delaware County, Iowa.
On April 25, 1855, the Rutherfords and Grants returned, accompanied by the families of M. G. Stedman, Alexander Stedman, Calvin Grant, Andrew Finch, J. L. Finch, and Eli Branch, all with covered wagons and livestock consisting of hogs and cattle.[10] The Stedmans, Calvin Grant, and the Finches broke off to stake claims in Pleasant Hill.
