BLUE EARTH COUNTY

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EXISTING STATIONS
Station
Name		 Original
Railroad		Current
Location		 Type Date
Built		 Current
Use		 Track
Status		 Building
Material		 More
Info
Amboy Memorial Park about 1 mi. west of St. James (Watonwan County), right side of road by campground C 1894 Museum None Wood
lake crystal 12346 Shag Road, SE of New Ulm. C ???? Storage None Wood  
Mankato
AND
 South Riverfront Drive, SW of Main Street C 1912 Business In Use Brick  
Mapleton CR 7, two miles south of town C ???? Farm Use None Wood  
Rapidan Main Street C 1906 Museum Gone Wood  
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station
Name		 Original
Railroad		 Notes
benning
station		 Three different lines crossed here. Not sure which, if any, had stations.
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.
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 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 This station was on the SW corner of Watonwan and Lilly Streets (which no longer intersect). There was a roundhouse two blocks north of the station on Lilly Street. There was also a separate freight station here. The passenger station was built in 1889.
madison lake This station was on the north side of Spruce Avenue (formerly called Race Street) between 5th and 6th Streets.
mankato
AND
 This passenger station was northwest of Front Street between Jackson and Hickory Streets. The railroads has separate freight stations on each side of the passenger station with the CGW freight station to the SW and the CM&St.P freight station to the NE.
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.
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 St.). A station was originally slated to be built one mile southwest at the townsite of Cream, but when the land was purchased at Pemberton, that spelled the end for the town of Cream (which had a boxcar for a depot when the RR came through in 1907).
Perth  
st. clair 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 until 1902.
vernon center This station was on the south side of Main Street on the west side of the tracks. It was built in 1879.
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.