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 Phoenix Hotel, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1878 Courtesy Fillmore County Historical Society - click image to enlarge |
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 Sanborn Insurance Map of Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1894 Sheet 1 of 3 (shown above) - Sheet 2 - Sheet 3 [shows each building and what they are made of] Courtsey Library of Congress - click image to enlarge |
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 Scene on Main Street, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1900 Courtesy Lanesboro Historical Museum - click image to enlarge |
 Little Norway, near Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1900 Courtesy Lanesboro Historical Museum - click image to enlarge |
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Steam Railroads of Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota |
| Steam railroading became an integral part of the communities in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota in the late 1800s. The railroad provided hundreds of jobs and the ability to transport both goods and passengers across the Midwest. The Chicago & North Western Railway, the Chicago Great Western Railroad, the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, the Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railroad, and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (called the Milwaukee Road by employees) served five principal gateways, which included Chicago, Illinois; Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; Omaha, Nebraska; and Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri. Operating steam engines required tremendous manpower, and by the 1920s, some steam passenger trains were replaced by more efficient motor cars, fueled by oil-powered engines. Steam engines could no longer compete with the reduced operating costs, smaller crew requirements, and time savings provided by diesel, which ultimately led to the fall of steam in 1955. | |
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Lanesboro, Minnesota: Historic Destination |
| In 1942, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sinclair Lewis wrote that the Lanesboro area was ..".worthy of Vermont in its sturdy quietude. Through all this district, secret little valleys branch off from the major valleys of the Root River, and there is room enough and view enough for 11,000 poets." Promoted in the late 1860s to east coast investors as an idyllic retreat, Lanesboro was established as a resort community and soon realized an impressive boom due to its unparalleled waterpower. Progressing not as a tourist area, but rather along other avenues of commerce, the community once hailed as the 'biggest little town in southeastern Minnesota' fell off the fast track of growth before its charm could be diminished by too much progress. Today Lanesboro's beautiful 1870s downtown is on the National Register of Historic Places, and the entire city is a haven for the arts-a showcase for the natural beauty that Sinclair Lewis touted more than sixty years ago. | |
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 St. Patrick Catholic Church, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1907 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection- click image to enlarge |
 Birds eye view, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1908 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection- click image to enlarge |
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 View of North Bluff, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1909 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection- click image to enlarge |
 Sanborn Insurance Map of Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1909 Sheet 1 of 4 (shown above) - Sheet 2 - Sheet 3 - Sheet 4 [shows each building and what they are made of] Courtsey Library of Congress - click image to enlarge |
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 General view, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1910 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection- click image to enlarge |
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 Wagon by Quarry, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1913 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection- click image to enlarge |
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 Plat map of Carrollton Township in Fillmore County, Minnesota, 1916 [shows land ownership] Courtesy John R. Borchert Map Library - click image to enlarge |
 Plat map of Holt Township in Fillmore County, Minnesota, 1916 [shows land ownership] Courtesy John R. Borchert Map Library - click image to enlarge |
 Milling Company, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1917 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection- click image to enlarge |
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 Church Hill viewed from the train, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1920 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection- click image to enlarge |
 Calves in front of First National Bank, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1920 Courtesy Lanesboro Historical Museum - click image to enlarge |
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 High School, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1921 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection- click image to enlarge |
 Opening day of the new building of Scanlan Hubberstad Bank and Trust, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1923 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection- click image to enlarge |
 Church Hill, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1925 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection- click image to enlarge |
 Lanesboro Pride Corn Canning Factory, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1925 Courtesy Fillmore County Historical Society - click image to enlarge |
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 Main Street, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1940s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection- click image to enlarge |
 North Bluff, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1940s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection- click image to enlarge |
 State Fish Hatchery, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1940s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection- click image to enlarge |
 School Teachers parading, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1945 Courtesy Lanesboro Historical Museum - click image to enlarge |
 The Old Mill Dam, Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1947 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection- click image to enlarge |
 "The Lookout" on US Highway 16 near Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1950s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection- click image to enlarge |
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