On Whipholt Beach Road (Maple Leaf Drive) (State Highway 200) 0.4 miles east of 16th Avenue (Pine Lake Road) (County Road 2108), on the left when traveling east.
When a federal marshal with about 100 troops of the 3rd Infantry tried to arrest the Chippewa Chief Bugonaygeshig at Sugar Point opposite here on the northeast shore of the lake, a sharp fight occurred October 5, 1898. The whites lost 7 killed and . . . — — Map (db m124726) HM
On Whipholt Beach Road (Maple Leaf Drive) (State Highway 200) 0.4 miles east of 16th Avenue (Pine Lake Road) (County Road 2108), on the left when traveling east.
Story adopted from "On This Day In History: The Battle of Sugar Point" by Kayla Duoos, Leech Lake News, Oct. 5, 2020 On the early Wednesday morning of October 5th, 1898, a handful of young Pillager Ojibwe men held off . . . — — Map (db m266796) HM
