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Hokah is a city in Houston County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 580 at the 2010 census. Hokah is located on the west side of the Mississippi River, opposite La Crosse, Wisconsin, and is part of the La Crosse metropolitan area. ==History== Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the area that is now the city of Hokah was a Native American settlement of the Dakota people.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Homepage )〕 The city's name, which is said to be a Native American word meaning gar fish〔http://www.cityofhokah-mn.gov/documents/History-of-Hokah.pdf〕 or the Dakota name for the nearby Root River, derives from the chief of the settlement, Chief Wecheschatope Hokah.〔 There were, at one time, more than forty Indian mounds throughout Hokah including several effigy mounds, though most have been lost to development.〔http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dgarvey/Mounds/Hokah_Effigy_Mounds.html〕 The first recorded European settler in Hokah was Edward Thompson, who arrived in 1851 with his wife and family and constructed a flour mill and dam on Thompson Creek, a tributary of the Root River that runs through the city and now bears his name.〔http://genealogytrails.com/minn/houston/twphistory_hokah.htm〕 The first town meeting was held in 1858, and the town was officially incorporated into a village by the state of Minnesota on March 2, 1871.〔 By 1875, Hokah had several major industries including four flour mills, cooper shops and a railroad depot, driven by the city's location on the navigable Root River near where it empties into the Mississippi River as well as the Root River Valley Railroad which ran through the north end of the village from nearby La Crescent to Rochester, Minnesota.〔http://lacrosse-buildings.com/hokah/〕 The railroad depot was equipped for all types of railroad work, including the construction of railroad locomotives and coaches. The depot employed as many as 500 workers and constructed as many as 300 coaches in one year.〔http://lacrossetribune.com/houstonconews/news/local/hokah-railroad-shops-had-huge-impact-on-area/article_d6037d5f-2f05-55f8-8626-53f0e3619d4f.html〕 As of 1880, Hokah also had a plow factory, a furniture factory, three blacksmith shops, a shoe shop, two drug stores, and six general stores.〔 In 1876, a railroad bridge was constructed across the Mississippi River from La Crosse, connecting the Root River Valley Railroad to the railroads across the river in La Crosse.〔http://www.footstepsoflacrosse.org/lax_hist.asp〕 In 1880, the Root River Valley Railroad was purchased by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad and the railroad depot in Hokah was razed in favor of other facilities elsewhere, leaving several hundred workers without employment and causing many people to leave the area. Hokah's other industries suffered from this loss of population and many of the other local businesses eventually closed.〔 On April 23, 1923, the village was reincorporated as a city.〔 Hokah City Hall, built by the Works Progress Administration in 1938, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.〔http://lacrossetribune.com/houstonconews/news/local/a-different-kind-of-registration-for-historic-hokah-city-hall/article_acacb6b8-9910-547c-9e90-93c5a4cfb0cf.html〕 On August 19, 2007, 15.10 inches of rain fell in Hokah over a 24-hour period, breaking the previous 24-hour rainfall record for the state of Minnesota of 10.84 inches set on July 22, 1972 in Fort Ripley, Minnesota.〔http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/journal/24hour_rain_record.html〕 This rainfall was part of the weather system that caused the 2007 Midwest flooding and caused widespread damage throughout Hokah and surrounding communities including landslides, damaged and destroyed homes, and washed-out roads.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Southeast Minnesota 2007 Flood )〕 Hokah also holds the record for the most rainfall in any month for the state of Minnesota of 23.86 inches, also set in August, 2007.〔http://climate.umn.edu/doc/journal/monthly_rain_record.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hokah, Minnesota」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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