The Crow Wing County village of Deerwood was known as Withington from 1871 to 1881, but it was confused with Worthington in southern Minnesota, according to Deerwood’s website, so the Crow Wing County village was renamed Deerwood because it was known for its whitetail deer.
A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1921.
More than 500 mountain bikers, their friends and families will come to Crosby the weekend of Aug. 17-18 for the Fifth Annual Cuyuna Crusher Race sponsored by the Cuyuna Lakes Chamber and the Minnesota Mountain Bike Series.
While electing a Communist in modern American politics seems the stuff of science fiction, a combination of old world ethos and new world problems lifted 26-year-old Karl Emil Nygard into the role of Crosby mayor during the bleakest days of the Great Depression.
