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The city of Akeley was incorporated on December 30, 1916. It was largely developed by a partnership between lumber magnate T. B. Walker and Healy C. Akeley, who formed the Red River Lumber Company in 1893. General settlement of Akeley began in 1895. After Walker built a sawmill in 1902, Akeley's development skyrocketed. The mill was once the largest in Minnesota. Walker had intended to build the mill in what later became Walker, Minnesota, but chose Akeley instead because of his wife's disapproval of the bars and brothels in the Walker area.

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