Editing Remer, Minnesota (section)

==History==
A post office called Remer has been in operation since 1904.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Cass | title=Cass County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=12 April 2015}}</ref> The city was named for its first postmaster, William P. Remer.<ref>{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n111 92]}}</ref>

Remer is also the location of the Thunder Lake Lodge, where [[Al Capone]] stayed on his vacations to Minnesota. The room he stayed in was named McCleary Cabin, which was originally built in 1912.<ref name="Thunder Lake Lodge">{{cite web |url=http://www.thunderlakelodge.com/invitation.htm |title=Thunder Lake Lodge |website=www.thunderlakelodge.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208033042/http://www.thunderlakelodge.com/invitation.htm |archive-date=2008-12-08}}</ref> In 2009, a motion-activated camera captured a picture of what some consider Bigfoot in an area near Remer.<ref name="Bigfoot in the northwoods? Camera picks up strange image near Remer">{{Cite web|url=http://www.twincities.com/ci_13968657|title=Bigfoot in the northwoods? Camera picks up strange image near Remer|date=9 December 2009}}</ref>

Late in [[World War II]], a logging camp manned by prisoners of war was at the site of an old [[Civilian Conservation Corps|CCC]] camp near Remer.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/44/v44i08p290-303.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019113116/http://collections.mnhs.org/mnhistorymagazine/articles/44/v44i08p290-303.pdf |archive-date=2012-10-19 |url-status=live |work=Minnesota History|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|first=Edward J. |last=Pluth | date=Winter 1975 |title=Prisoner of War Employment in Minnesota During World War II|page=295 |access-date=June 20, 2014}}</ref>

Up until 1959, the [[Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad|Soo Line]] provided passenger rail service at [[Remer station]].

The town claims to have had [[Bigfoot]] sightings since the late 1800s, and holds a [http://www.homeofbigfoot.com/About-Us.html Bigfoot Days] celebration each summer. The [[All Gas No Brakes]] series released a video documenting the 2020 festival.