LOST COKATO: LUMBERYARDS

Museum Staff. "Lost Cokato: Lumberyards." In The Midst Of. Cokato Historical Society. (February, 2023) vol. 43, no. 1.

Cokato Lumber Company, located on corner of Jenks Avenue and Third Street SW.

For over a century, lumberyards played an integral role in the development of Cokato’s community. It’s hard to say who started the first lumberyard in Cokato. In the early 1880s, there were a smattering of very short-lived lumber yards, and many farms in the area had their own sawmills. In time, Cokato’s lumberyards were consistently housed at four        primary locations: Broadway Avenue and 1st Street SW; Millard Ave; Jenks Avenue and Third Street SW; and Century Avenue and 1st Street SW.

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