Cisco, Minnesota

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Cisco is a place name for the remnants of a former settlement in the NW 1/4 of Section 11 of Badger Township, in Polk County, Minnesota, located approximately four miles north of the town of Erskine, Minnesota.

Cisco was still in use as a place name by local people as late as 1990, but by 2006 it is but a dim memory among some of the old-timers.

[edit] History

Beginning with the construction of the railroad in the late 1800s until the late 1940s, Cisco was a water station and rail siding on the Soo Line Railroad. At one time, Cisco boasted a grain elevator, a store and a school, in addition to the railroad facilities and several homes. After the demise of steam locomotion, the railroad no longer stopped in Cisco. By 1960, the elevator had long since burned down, the school had been consolidated and discontinued operations, and Cisco had shrunk to a couple of houses.