The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The town went through six quick name changes after 1871 until, in 1872, it was finally named after Thomas Hawley Canfield, an officer in the Northern Pacific Railway, which laid out the town. General George Custer visited the town in 1876. The incident was recalled in WCCO Television's short film Incident at Hawley, which aired during America's bicentennial year of 1976.
Hawley was at one time settled by a colony of immigrants from Yeovil, Somerset; among these was Elisabeth Chant, later a painter in Minneapolis.
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Start Hawley’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hawley’s history is told.
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Hawley, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Hawley is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Hawley has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Buffalo River State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources in Riverton, 7 miles away.
Hawley and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.