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| Station Name |
Original Railroad | Current Location |
Type | Date Built |
Current Use |
Track Status |
Building Material |
More Info |
| Alpha |
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Jackson County Fairgrounds off 550th Street (CR 23) (GPS: 43.626540, -94.973609) |
C | 1898 | Museum | None | Wood |
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| Jackson |
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59 River Street (GPS: 43.610593, -94.987304) |
C | 1875 | Storage | In Use | Wood |
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| STATIONS OF THE PAST | ||||||||
| Station Name |
Original Railroad |
Notes | ||||||
| Heron Lake |
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This station, built in 1887, was on the SW side of 10th Street at GPS: 43.795485, -95.321253. News reports from 1915 say the depot was overturned by high winds (The Times-Enterprise,7-21-1915), but maps before and after 1915 show the station at the same location, so either the station wasn't overturned, was repaired and reset, or was replaced by an identical station. | ||||||
| Jackson |
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There was a freight station just to the west of the passenger station at GPS: 43.629113, -94.975298. It was gone by 1940. | ||||||
| Lakefield |
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This station was at the west end of Broadway Avenue. The first station here was built in 1879 and the line was abandoned in 1979 (The Globe, 8-30-1979). | ||||||
| Miloma (Prairie Junction) |
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This joint station was built in 1893. | ||||||
| okabena |
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This was the first station at Okabena, built in 1879. It served for only one year as the CM&St.P bought the line in 1880 and constructed a new station. | ||||||
| Okabena |
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Built in 1880, this station sat along Jackson Street between Minnesota and Exchange Streets. | ||||||
| wilder |
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This was the first depot at Wilder. | ||||||
| Wilder |
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The second depot at Wilder was along the tracks approximately between Main and Adler Streets. It was built in 1913. | ||||||
| 1898 JACKSON COUNTY RAILROAD MAP | ||||||||
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Notes About Existing Stations... Alpha (CM&St.P) - The original location of this depot was on Railroad Avenue between Main and Knox Streets. It was bought by the Jackson County Fair Association and moved to the fairgrounds in 1959. Jackson (CM&St.P) - The original location of this station was on 550th Avenue north of Jackson Street at GPS: 43.629237, -94.974656. In 1987 Bob Grunewald bought the station and moved it to his property (the current location) (The Globe, 2-23-1987). According to that article, the station was built in 1875, but other sources say 1887. According to the owner this station used to be two-storied, but the RR removed the second floor. I can find no older sources to confirm those dates. On the 1940 Sanborn map the depot still had two stories, so its modification came sometime after that. |
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