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Cemetery
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Chittamo
Cemetery
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AREA Chittamo
is the corrupted version of the Indian name "Ojidamo" who was a
Chippewa Indian Chief who died in 1898 on the Totogatic
River. Ojidamo means Red
Squirrel. The Chippewa
had used the area as a camp until the 1880s when the first white
settlers arrived (the Goodwin and Wolfe families). Logging
camps
were also located in this area, which provided much of the work for the
settlers. During Chittamo's productive years, the area had a
school, church, general store and post office, but Minong was the major
trade center for the area even at that time. The "new"
school,
which was built in 1921, is now the town hall. The "old"
school
building was then used as a church until the new church was built in
1935. That church building was later moved (in 1950) to the
Stone
Lake area. The cemetery and the town hall are the only
remnants
of this once bustling community.
Some early family names associated with the Chittamo area include:
On
01 Sep 1969, the Indianhead Community Action Agency, along with the
Washburn Co. Historical Society placed a plaque at the Chittamo
Cemetery site to commemorate the early settlers of the Chittamo
area. The plaque placed at the cemetery site reads:
Pioneer
Settler and Indian Burial Ground
In unmarked graves nearby lie nearly 50 settlers and Indians who dwelt in the Chittamo area just before 1900. Only the following are known to have been buried in the year shown: DETWEILER,
John -- (no date) - 1894 -- Civil War Veteran
HEENAN, James -- (no date) - 1894 HEENAN, John Jr -- (no date) - 1895 HEENAN, John Sr -- (no date) - 1989 HEENAN, Mrs John Sr -- (no date) - 1897 LaPRAIRIE, Laxius Jr -- (no date) - 1901 LaPRAIRIE, Laxius Sr -- (no date) - 1895 -- Civil War Veteran LaPRAIRIE, Mary -- (no date) - 1900 LaPRAIRIE, Mrs Laxius Sr -- (no date) - 1900 DISCLAIMER:
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