MORRISON COUNTY

EXISTING STATIONS
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Station Name	Original Railroad	Current Location	Type	Date Built	Current Use	Track Status	Building Material	More Info
little falls		200 1st Street NW (GPS: 45.978255, -94.369840)	C	1899	Civic	In Use	Brick/Wood
Swanville		4th Street, south side flanking the alley, 1/2 block west of De Graft Street (GPS: 45.913343,-94.641783)	F	????	Storage	None	Wood
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station Name	Original Railroad	Notes
Belle Prairie		This station was built in 1875 and measured 20'x50'.
Bowlus		The depot was on the south side of Main Street, on the west side of the tracks.
Camp Ripley Junction (Topeka)		This location was formerly known as Topeka. The 1917 NP Valuation Records lists for Topeka a RR carbody that was converted into a shelter in 1909. Camp Ripley was founded in 1929, so the station shown in the photo was likely built after that. The station was simply called "Military Spur" prior to 1931.
Center Valley
Curtis Siding		This was midway between Cushing and Lincoln. Not sure if there was ever a depot there. It is shown on an 1892 map as a stop on the NP.
Cushing		This station was built in 1889 and measured 16'x48'. It was still there in 1917 (as it was listed on NP Valuation Records for that year), but gone by 1920.
Darling		According to the NP Valuation Records from 1917, there was only a telegraph office here at that time.
Flensburg (Flynn) (LaFond)		The station was on Dove Road, just east of Maple Street.
Genola (PIERZ)		The town of Genola is adjacent to Pierz and was originally named New Pierz when platted in 1908. The station was originally known as Pierz and then changed to Genola around 1915. In 1915, it was incorporated as Grainville but changed immediately to Genola, the name of a village in Piedmont, Italy. The station was torn down in the late 1970's and some of the pieces were used for a restaurant renovation in Pierz.
Gregory (Portland)		According to the NP Valuation Records from 1917, there was only a telegraph office here at that time.
Hillman		The depot was at the northern end of Main Street (now 372nd Avenue).
Lincoln (McKinley)		The station was on the east side of the tracks near where Holt Road crosses the tracks today. Lincoln and McKinley were next to each other with McKinley on the west side of the tracks and Lincoln on the east. Both are essentially ghost towns now. The combination station here was built in 1902 and measured 24'x55'. The McKinley here is not to be confused with the town of the same name in St. Loius County.
Little Falls		There was an earlier St. Paul & Northern Pacific station here that burned down in October 1897. It was located on the south side of 4th Avenue NE between 5th and 6th Streets.
Little Falls		According to the NP Valuation Records from 1917, a new freight station was built here in 1903 that measured 40'x120'.
Motley (Beaulieu)		In 1892, the passenger station was on the east side of 2nd Street (between Front and Main) and the freight station was on the west side. A spur ran south from the mainline along 4th Avenue to a planing mill that was located on the bank of the Long Prairie River (just south of Cemetery Road). That branch was gone by 1920. According to the NP Valuation Records of 1917, the passenger station was built in 1881 and measured 20'x40'. The freight station was also built in 1881 and measured 24'x60'.
Pierz		See listing above for Genola.
Randall		The station was on Pacific Street at 3rd Street on the NE side of the tracks. The station is shown on 1892 maps which implies that it was built by St. Paul & Northern Pacific RR. The station measured 20'x114'.
Randall		A new station was built here in 1902 that measured 24'x55'.
Royalton		The station was on the north side of North 2nd Street when that street used to cross the tracks. That street's original name was Russell Street and it was later called Main Street. The station was built in 1892, so it was probably built by the St. Paul & Northern Pacific.
Swanville		This NP station was on the south side of 3rd Street between DeGraff and Rhoda Streets. There was a Little Falls & Dakota RR station at this same site in 1892 which may have served on into the NP years.
Topeka		See listing for Camp Ripley Junction above.
Vawter		This station was gone by 1920.
1898 MORRISON COUNTY RAILROAD MAP

Notes About Existing Stations... Little Falls (NP) - Station was designed by Cass Gilbert. Plaque on bulding lists build date as 1899. Swanville (NP) - This is the freight section of the combination station that was here. The passenger side was reportedly torn down for lumber.