The Great Hinckley Firestorm and the Killer of John Wilkes Booth

Prelude to Disaster The 1800’s was a time of great invention, westward migration, the American Civil War, industrial expansion and it also was a time of recklessness which all too often led to catastrophe. Such was the case in Hinckley Minnesota in the year 1894. Pine County Minnesota was going through a tremendous drought in …