BLUE EARTH COUNTY

EXISTING STATIONS
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Station Name	Original Railroad	Current Location	Type	Date Built	Current Use	Track Status	Building Material	More Info
Amboy		112 Sunset Drive in St. James (Watonwan County) (GPS: 43.974146, -94.641332)	C	1894	Museum	None	Wood
Huntley (Fairibault Co.)		110 West Maine Street in Amboy (GPS: 43.888226, -94.158826)	C	1879	Business	None	Wood
lake crystal		12346 Shag Road (Township Road 110), SE of New Ulm. (GPS: 44.274639, -94.430028)	C	????	Storage	None	Wood
Mankato	AND	South Riverfront Drive, SW of Main Street (GPS: 44.167493, -94.004394)	C	1896	Business	In Use	Brick
Mapleton		CR 7, two miles south of town	C	????	Farm Use	None	Wood
Minneopa		21099 547th Avenue. Northeast corner of Gadwall and 547th at the Minneopa State Park Maintenance yard. (GPS: 44.152159,-94.08921)	C	????	Civic	None	Wood
Rapidan		190th Street/Main Street just west of 552nd Avenue (GPS: 44.094242, -94.069196)	C	1906	Museum	Gone	Wood
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station Name	Original Railroad	Notes
benning station		Four different lines crossed here. Not sure which had stations though aside from the CGW.
Benning station
Benning station
Benning Station		And addition for living quarters for the station agent was made 1916 after the station agent threatened to quit. The station was closed in 1940.
Burdette (Mankato Jct.)
cambria		This station was on the SE side of Maple Street (CR 6). It was wood with a stone foundation and was built in 1900.It was torn down and replaced with a portable depot which was then later removed to a different site.
Cream		A station was originally slated to be built one mile southwest of Pemberton at the townsite of Cream, but when the land was purchased at Pemberton, that spelled the end for the town of Cream. Although, Cream did have boxcar for a depot when the RR came through in 1907.
bradley Station	AND	Not sure if there was one station here or two as the tracks ran next to each other. There was a train wreck on the CSt.PM&O line near here on April 18, 1875.
Eagle Lake (Speir)		This station was just west of 3rd Street. It was built in 1885.
Garden City		This station was on the north side of CR 13 (Red River Ridge Road, formerly Washington Street). This frame station was built in 1879.
Good Thunder		This depot was on the north side of Main Street just west of Front Street.
judson		The depot was at the corner of Railroad and Broad Streets and was built in 1900.
lake crystal		There was also a separate freight station here. The passenger station was built in 1889. Blane Anderson writes: The Lake Crystal Depot was constructed on the corner of Humphrey & Main Street, where Grace Thrift Store is now. The depot, along with the railroad, was moved to the south shore of Lily Lake in 1904. Where it was placed at the corner of Dean and Lilly Street (which no longer intersect), and is now directly north of the Holy Family Catholic Church, across Highway 60 along the railroad. At Around 1970, it was sold to Elmer Rolloff Jr. of New Ulm. The east end of the station was raised, and the rest of the depot was moved to New Ulm where it resides today (as of 2024 still owned by the Rolloff family).
Lime Siding (Lune)
Madison Lake		This 24'x48'station was on the north side of Spruce Avenue (formerly called Race Street) between 5th and 6th Streets. It was built in 1887, moved a short distance in 1904, and torn down in 1962.
Mankato		The first W&St.P (C&NW) passenger and freight stations were on the SW side of East Spring Street at GPS: 44.171450, -94.000044.
Mankato		The second C&NW passenger/freight station was at the end of Mulberry Street at GPS: 44.168765, -94.002479. They were connected and made of brick. These stations are shown on the 1889 and 1894 Sanborn maps. After the union station was built, this served as the freight station.
Mankato		The original wood frame station was at the NW end of East Hickory Street at GPS: 44.166615, -94.006503 with a large brick freighthouse to the south. These station were shown on the 1884-1894 Sanborn maps.
mankato	AND	This brick passenger station was northwest of Front Street between Jackson and Hickory Streets at GPS: 44.165666, -94.006983. The railroads has separate freight stations on each side of the passenger station with the CGW freight station to the SW (at GPS: 44.165358, -94.007467) and the CM&St.P freight station to the NE (at GPS: 44.166411, -94.006125). On the 1909 Sanborn map the CGW freight station is labeled as a Dan Patch frieght station.
Mankato		Freight station.
Mankato		The first Omaha passenger station in Makato was on the south corner of North 4th and East Washington Streets at GPS: 44.168172, -93.996051. It had a long platform that ran along 4th Street to the SW. It is shown on the 1884 Sanborn map.
mankato		The second Omaha passenger station was a 2-story wood frame station on North 4th Street just SW of Washington Street at GPS: 44.168071, -93.996174 (just a bit SW of where the original station was). It is shown on the 1889 and 1894 Sanborn maps. Although it was out of service, it was still shown on the 1900 Sanborn map, but gone by 1908.
mankato		The original freight station was on the east corner of North 4th Street and East Washington Street at GPS: 44.168368, -93.995887. This station was torn down or moved when the new union station was built around 1896.
mankato		There was a freight station on the northwest side of Pike Street. Today this location is near the river north of South Riverfront Drive halfway between Cherry and Hickory Streets. A later brick freight station was built in 1910.
Mankato		This original Minneapolis & St. Louis RR (later purchased by the CGW) station was on the west corner of West Rock Street and Maple Street at GPS: 44.174287, -94.000151. It is shown on the 1889-1900 Sanborn maps. The tracks ended just SW of the station.
mapleton		This station was on the north side of Main Street at 3rd Street. Is this the same station that is still standing?
minneopa		This station was located at Minneopa State Park due north of the falls on what used to be called Depot Street. It was built around 1870 and the small village of Minneopa was north of the depot with the falls and picnic grounds to the south.
Minneopa		This later station was built in 1906.
Pemberton		This depot was located on Railway Street (MN 83) between Main Street and 1st Avenue (where 2nd Ave used to intersect Railway Street).
Perth (Iceland)		This station was known as "Iceland" until 1905.
St. Clair (Hilton)		This station was at the bend in Railroad Street.
Stone Station		There was a short spur here that went to a quarry to the NW. The station here was known as Quarry or Carney Quarry Spur until 1902.
Vernon Center (Edgewood)		This station was on the south side of Main Street on the west side of the tracks. It was built in 1879 and known as Edgewood until 1885.
Watters		There was no depot here, only a station sign and perhaps a platform.
1898 BLUE EARTH COUNTY RAILROAD MAP

Notes About Existing Stations... Amboy (CSt.PM&O) - The original location of this station in Amboy was at the SW corner of 1st and Maine Streets. Huntley (CM&St.P) - Moved from original location to 31710 170th Street, then to Amboy, MN. The depot was given to the Amboy Area Community Club free of charge with the condition that it be restored. The project was started in 2011 and the station was restored by 2013. Minneopa (C&NW) - Minneopa, a ghost town just west of Mankato and now the site of Minneopa State Park. Town folded early but the RR kept the station there for a while to serve excursions to Minneopa Falls. The state park started about 1905 and at sometime later the state bought the station, moved it north across the tracks to serve as the Park Superintendents house. Now it is the Maintenance office for the Park.