Pitt, Minnesota

Pitt is a ghost town in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States.

The community is located west of Baudette on Minnesota State Highway 11 at the intersection with Lake of the Woods County Road 6. A post office was in operation in Pitt from 1903 to 1993.^[1] Pitt had a station on the Canadian Pacific railway line, but it has since been removed and is now only a whistle stop. The only building visible by public road in Pitt is a boarded-up general store advertising "knives and wild rice" that closed in the 1990s, which was the original home of Pitt's very first settlers Herbert and Mamie Sanborn in 1901. It was moved from west of the bridge in Pitt to its current location and later became a grocery store. It is the only early 1900's building left standing. Little evidence remains of the town other than the state signs. To the north of the railroad tracks is a lot where pulpwood is handled.

Pitt was burned in the Baudette Fire of 1910.^[2]

References

Further reading

• Rand McNally Road Atlas - 2007 edition - Minnesota entry
• Official State of Minnesota Highway Map - 2007/2008 edition

Municipalities and communities of Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States County seat: Baudette Cities Baudette Roosevelt‡ Williams Townships Angle Baudette Beaver Dam Boone Chilgren Cloverdale Eugene Forest Area Graceton Gudrid Hiwood Kiel Lakewood McDougald Meadowland Myhre Norris Noyes Park Pioneer Potamo Prosper Rapid River Rulien Spooner Swiftwater 157-30 158-30 Victory Wabanica Walhalla Wheeler Zippel CDP Angle Inlet Unincorporated communities Arnesen Birch Beach Carp Clementson Faunce Hackett Long Point Oak Island Penasse Sandy Shores Wheeler's Point Indian reservations Red Lake Indian Reservation‡ Ghost towns Lude Pitt Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 48°43′03″N 94°44′10″W / 48.71750°N 94.73611°W / 48.71750; -94.73611