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In the middle 1800's a break away group from the Mormon Church known as the Cutlerites settled along the shores of Clitherall Lake and established the first permanent white settlement in Otter Tail County. They named their town after the lake they were on. Later when the railroad came through the area the town was moved about two miles away to better access this new form of transportation. The old town became known as Old Clitherall and slowly died.
 
In the 1930's the property was bought by the Lord family of Breckenridge Minnesota as a summer retreat for a sick child. The child was never sick again and in the early forties several cabins were built and it was opened as a resort for summer recreation. Ione Lord Nelson, the sick child,  owned it until 1974 when she sold it to the Huber family. The Plantin/Blaskowski family bought it in 1985 and have served the public here ever since. Cabin seven was the school house and was the first school house in the county, district number one. It was east of the resort and moved along the shore in the 1950's. The church building still stands on the property east of the resort and is cared for by the descendants of those first settlers.


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