LE SUEUR COUNTY

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EXISTING STATIONS
Station
Name
Original
Railroad
Current
Location
Type Date
Built
Current
Use
Track
Status
Building
Material
More
Info
Elysian South side of Main Street
between 3rd and 4th Streets
(GPS: 44.198564, -93.678747)
R ???? Civic Gone Brick  
Le Center North side of East Ottawa Street
between Cordova and Montgomery Avenues
(GPS: 44.387208, -93.728379)
C ???? Business Gone Wood
new prague North side of Main Street West
at 3rd Avenue NW
(GPS: 44.544223, -93.582647)
C 1877 Railroad In Use Wood  
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station
Name
Original
Railroad
Notes
Cleveland  
Elysian This station, built in 1887, was north of MN-60 between 1st and 3rd Streets. It was on the south side of the mainline with a siding to the south. The old flour mill was due SE. The station was closed in 1967.
Greenland  
Henderson
(East Henderson)
(Rudolph)
This station was on Henderson Station Road (CR-34) about 1/4 mile south of MN-19. It was to the west of where the road turns from north/south to east/west. The station was built in 1867. This location is also known as Henderson Station.
Kasota
Kasota
AND
Joint station.
Kilkenny The depot was just south of Oak Street on the west side of the tracks.
Le Center
(LeSueur Center)
This station was on the north side of Ottawa Street between Montgomery and Cordova Avenues at GPS: 44.387224, -93.728598.
Le Sueur
(Prairie La Fleche)
(Wahinoge)
The first station here was between Oak and Maple Streets.
Le Sueur This second-generation station was at the NW end of Oak Street at GPS: 44.464093, -93.914385. This may have been a new station or the old station with an addition as it was essentially at the smae location as the original station except larger. The station was either built or expanded sometime between 1896-1902.
Montogomery           This station was on the south side of Vine Street east of 1st Street at GPS: 44.438621, -93.580475.
Montogomery This later-generation station replaced the original station listed above at the same location (south side of Vine Street).
Montgomery This station was at the south end of 1st Street at what is now Milwaukee Avenue at GPS: 44.433207, -93.581128.
Mumford
(Doyle)
 
Ottawa The original St. Paul & Sioux City RR station here was built in 1867, but burned down on September 13, 1869 after being struck by lightning (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 09-14-1869).
ottawa The station was on the east side of Ottawa Road south of Sumner Street.
St. Peter
(East St. Peter)
This station was across the river in Le Sueur County. It was on the south side of East Broadway Avenue (MN-99). The depot site is vacant today, but the tracks are still active. The first station here was built in 1867 and later served as the freight station when a new station was built in 1905.
St. Peter
(East St. Peter)
This was likely the first Omaha station.
Waterville This line was the former Cannon Valley Branch of the M&St.L. It was purchased by the CGW 1899 and became the Mankato-Red Wing Branch of that line. At first the CGW used the M&St.L depot, but then built its own station in 1900. The station was on the SE corner of South 2nd Street and East Hoosac Street. There was also a branch line that ran on the north side of Lake Tetonka ending at the Tetonka Summer Resort Hotel and racetrack.
Waterville This station, built in 1900, was on the SE corner of West Hoosac Street and South Reed Street at GPS: 44.216509, -93.570554. A concrete block station was added to the wood frame station in later years. Eventually only the concrete block station remained, and even that is gone now too.
1898 LE SUEUR COUNTY RAILROAD MAP
Notes About Existing Stations...

LeCenter (MILW) - Known formerly as Le Sueur Center, the name was subsequently changed to Le Center. This may be a modified remnant of the original station as it was at the same location (but the original station was larger - see listing for LeCenter below in the "Stations Of The Past" section).