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The Origins of Powers Lake
Sometime in the early 1890’s an early pioneer, John J. Power, his wife, family and a band of purebred sheep moved up the White Earth Valley and set up his sheep ranch headquarters and corrals on the south shore of a large lake. He maintained his ranch here for a couple of years and while here a daughter, Margaret, was born to them, in 1892. Shortly afterwards, the Power’s family moved on, but he left the area a perpetual memory, as the lake by which he had ranched was named Powers Lake. Later a township and a town also bore his name.