Editing Hokah, Minnesota (section)

===Como Falls===
[[File:Hokah MN - Como Falls.jpg|thumb|Modern-day Como Falls]]
[[File:Lake Como in Hokah MN from 1909 postcard.jpg|thumb|right|Postcard depicting Lake Como circa 1909]]
[[File:Como Falls in Hokah, Minnesota.webm|thumb|Como Falls in Hokah, Minnesota]]
Hokah was home to Como Falls, a waterfall on Thompson Creek.  From 1858 until the 1930s Hokah was also home to Lake Como, a 90-acre, 20-foot deep man-made lake created by building a dam on Thompson Creek at Como Falls.<ref name="Trimble 125">{{cite book|last=Trimble|first=Stanley W.|title=Historical Agriculture and Soil Erosion in the Upper Mississippi Valley Hill Country|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3lWBHWz1xfoC&pg=PA125|date=21 November 2012|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4665-5574-7|page=125}}</ref>  Lake Como was a popular vacation spot in its heyday, drawing visitors from La Crosse and the surrounding area with lakeside cabins and boat rentals.<ref name="lacrosse-buildings.com"/>  The dam that created Lake Como failed during a flood in 1909 and allowed the lake to drain but was rebuilt in 1922. By the late 1930s, soil erosion from nearby farms prior to the widespread local use of [[contour plowing]] caused the lake bed to fill in, bringing about the end of Lake Como.  Until August 2018, the site of Lake Como was used as a community park, pool, and baseball field.  A severe storm in late August 2018 dumped almost eight inches of rain in the area in less than 24 hours, causing massive damage to the park and rerouting the path of water around the rock formation that made up Como Falls, basically destroying the falls.<ref name="Trimble 125"/> In the following months, local and state parties' funding was allocated to rebuilding the route for water that creates Como Falls.
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