I.W. Stevens
Stevens was one of the only people to live on the islands year-round.
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I.W. Stevens Details
In 1932, a Norwegian immigrant named Invald Walter Stevens purchased an old lumber camp on Namakan Lake from the Virginia and Rainy Lake Lumber Company. He repurposed the cabins from the lumber camp and opened a fishing lodge, called Pine Cove, which operated until 1959. Stevens was one of the only people to live on the Rainy Lake islands year-round, choosing to brave the frigid cold winters. Stevens remained on the unnamed island until 1973. He died in 1989 at the age of 104. Today the cabins still stand and you can paddle to Stevens' 400-acre island, located in the western corner of Namakan Lake just a few miles east of the Ash River Visitor Center.
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