Muskoda, Minnesota (Ghost Town)

MUSKODA, a former station of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the east edge of section 7, Hawley, had an Ojibwe name, meaning a meadow or tract of grassland, a large prairie. A few miles east of Clay County, the traveler on the Northern Pacific line passes out from the northeast forest region, and thence crosses an expanse of prairie and plain, mainly treeless, for 800 miles to the Rocky Mountains. (By a relocation of the railroad to secure an easier grade in the next seven miles west of Hawley, the site of Muskoda is left now about two-thirds of a mile distant at the north.) Large quantities of sand and gravel from two sand companies were shipped from the station; the village had a general store, a grain elevator, a large potato warehouse, and a post office, 1873-1930. The population was 30 at the 1990 census, though an estimate from 2000 is around 50. Little trace of the town remains.

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