Founded as a lumber camp in the 1870s , Brook Park was incorporated as a township on April 18 , 1894 ; and as a village on October 1 , 1919 . On September 1 , 1894 the township and surrounding area were devastated in the Great Hinckley Fire . A monument to the Brook Park victims of the fire is located in the town cemetery just southwest of town
Great Hinckley Fire
Great Hinckley Fire
Brook Park, Minnesota