Winnipeg Junction, Minnesota

Winnipeg Junction is a ghost town in section 22 of Highland Grove Township in Clay County, Minnesota.

History

Winnipeg Junction was established in 1885 with the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The town developed rapidly and within twenty years had a church, three stores, three saloons, two restaurants, two hotels, a bakery, a grain elevator, a school, three livery stables, and a post office which operated from 1887 until 1910.^[1] However the railroad moved its line to a more favorable grade in 1909, and the town subsequently died, its businesses and residents moving to the adjacent communities of Manitoba Junction and Dale. Little trace of the town remains today.

Notes

1. ↑ Upham, Warren (2001). Minnesota Place Names, A Geographical Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society. p. 124. ISBN 0-87351-396-7. 

Municipalities and communities of Clay County, Minnesota, United States County seat: Moorhead Cities Barnesville Comstock Dilworth Felton Georgetown Glyndon Hawley Hitterdal Moorhead Sabin Ulen Townships Alliance Barnesville Cromwell Eglon Elkton Elmwood Felton Flowing Georgetown Glyndon Goose Prairie Hagen Hawley Highland Grove Holy Cross Humboldt Keene Kragnes Kurtz Moland Moorhead Morken Oakport Parke Riverton Skree Spring Prairie Tansem Ulen Viding CDPs Baker Oakport Unincorporated communities Averill Downer Finkle Rollag Rustad Ghost towns Dale Muskoda Winnipeg Junction

Coordinates: 46°53′45″N 96°14′48″W / 46.89583°N 96.24667°W / 46.89583; -96.24667