Pequot Lakes (/ˈpiːkwɑːt ˈleɪks/ PEE-kwaht LAYKS)[3] is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States.

In 1900, Walter and Flora Brown filed their plat for the E 1/2 of the SW 1/4 section 10 in T136N-R29W under the title Pequot.

The Pequot Indians are a tribe that used to dominate southeastern New England before the English colonists arrived.

Author Herman Melville named his lead ship in his novel Moby-Dick as the Pequod.

The local historian Carl Zapffe suggests that a variation of the Chippewa word for arrow (bikwas), as listed by Father Barroga in his Chippewa dictionary, gave rise to the word Pequot.

She graciously allowed her dugout home to be used as a school and a church for the early settlers of the town.

Most of the current area of Pequot Lakes was gained through an annexation of the entirety of the surrounding former Sibley Township on June 4, 2002.

A tradition beginning in 1938, Pequot Lakes annually hosts the Bean Hole Days festival in July.

The festival originally began when store owners in the town hosted a bean feed for the local farmers, and the tradition continued.

Over the years, new traditions were created, such as giving pots Scandinavian names like Ole and Sven, and electing a Bean Hole Days "King" and "Queen.

"[10] Minnesota Highway 371 had served as a main route in the city, until a bypass was put in and the previously named Highway 371 was renamed Patriot Ave. after the local high school sports team.