BECKER COUNTY

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EXISTING STATIONS
Station
Name		 Original
Railroad		Current
Location		 Type Date
Built		 Current
Use		 Track
Status		 Building
Material		 More
Info
Detroit Lakes 116 Pioneer Street
(GPS: 46.819811, -95.846004)		 P 1908 Museum/
Railroad		 In Use Brick
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station
Name		 Original
Railroad		 Notes
Audubon There were passenger and freight stations on Front Street just to the east of 4th Street. Both stations were built in 1891 and both measured 20'x40' according to NP Valuation Records.
Angola This was an early flagstop; it is unlikely there was ever a station building here. It was in Audubon Township, Section 24.
Callaway
(Baxter)		 This station was located at the corner of Minnesota and Railway Streets.
detroit lakes This station was on the south side of Front Street, on the east side of the tracks.
Detroit Lakes The photo is from 1872 and shows the first passenger and freight stations here just a year after the town was founded.
Detroit Lakes The second generation frame passenger station was on the west side of Washington Avenue at GPS: 46.819996, -95.845615.
Detroit Lakes According to the 1917 NP Valuation Records, a new freight station was built in 1897 and measured 24'x80'. It was at the corner of Main Street SW and Lake Avenue at GPS: 46.820334, -95.846356.
Detroit Lake
(Pokegama Beach)		 There was a small depot that served the lakefront properties here. The station was located east of lots 8 and 9 of the Pokegama Beach subdivision of resort plats. The station was on the west side of the tracks and can be seen on Becker County maps from 1929.
frazee The passenger station was on the east corner of Lake (formerly Mill) and Juniper (formerly Wilcox Avenue) on the SW side of the tracks at GPS: 46.727119, -95.701410. It was moved to the Kasowski farm near Perham, but was torn down after suffering heavy water damage. According to the 1917 NP Valuation Records, the station was built in 1897 and measured 20'x40'.
Frazee The freight station was across the tracks to the east of the passenger station at GPS: 46.727096, -95.701038. According to the 1917 NP Valuation Records, it was built in 1902 and measured 20'x60'.
Frazee This 1950s-era station was on the SE side of Lake Street around GPS: 46.726979, -95.701280.
La Belle According to the 1917 NP Valuation Records, a 20'x40' combination station was built here in 1897.
lake park The freight and passenger stations were on 1st Street with the passenger station on the south side of the tracks and the freight station on the north. According to the 1917 NP Valuation Records, a new combination station was built here in 1909 that measured 30'x106'.
Lake Park According to the 1917 NP Valuation Records, a new freight station was built here in 1905 that measured 24'x60'.
Lake Park There was a later-generation station here that had a metal roof.
Mc Hugh
(Johnsons)		 According to the 1917 NP Valuation Records, the station was built in 1910 and measured 16'x20'. The station was known as "Johnsons" until 1883.
Oak Lake According to the 1917 NP Valuation Records, there was only a telegraph office at this location as of that survey. The site was abandoned early when the Audubon station was built nearby.
Ogema
(Angora)		 This station was at what used to be the west end of Beaulieu Street when that street went trough to the tracks.
Richards  
Sand Beach Sanitarium According to the 1917 NP Valuation Records, a passenger shelter shed was built here in 1916 that measured 8'x12'.
westbury This station sat approximately where US 59 is today. The station was on the east side of the tracks between Broadway and Becker Streets. The grain elevator was across from the depot on a siding to the west.
1898 BECKER COUNTY RAILROAD MAP
Notes About Existing Stations...

Detroit Lakes (NP) - Owned by the White Earth Tribe, the depot has be refurbished.