(rshsdepot) Bangor Township, Minnesota, Part 1 (maps and Erskine, Minn. station)

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

Population: 217
Bangor Township, Pope County, Minnesota

Where Polk is: http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/P/Polk-County,-Minnesota.htm
http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/history/gifs/rdlakmap2.gif
Map:
http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/9/9b/Map_of_Minnesota_highlighting_Polk_Count
y.png

Old map of Polk County:
http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/history/gifs/polk1895map.gif

Polk County est. 1858
Polk County included nearly the entire northwestern corner of Minnesota,
representing the present counties of Polk, Norman, Red Lake and Pennington,
and parts of Beltrami, Clay, Becker and Hubbard Counties. Its total area
covered over 7,000 miles.

Gradually legislation diminished the size of the county until nothing
remained but the territory now comprising Polk, Red Lake and Pennington
Counties. It was still large, in fact ranking fourth in size among all
counties in the state.

Here is Tilden Township in Polk County map, 1896:
http://www.geology.und.nodak.edu/gerla/home/tilden_upham.html
Note close ups of rail lines in comparison with old Polk County map

Crookston on both Great Northern lines. Burwell, Benoit, Dugdale, Mentor
going east. Then Erskine, McIntosh and Fosston the end of that line but it
later (unless map just left it out) went to Bemidji and one destination east
was Duluth.
Kittsom and Russia going south. And that is the Northern Pacific going n-s
stopping at Tilden
On the old Bangor map, there is a Fertile, Minnesota near bottom of map,
where two NP lines met heading south, including the one from Tilden. Lees is
a
stop in between, Delorme and Red Lake Falls station, then St. Hilaire, Thief
River Falls. Grand Fork, ND  in the next state is where the NP and GN  lines
head on west.
GN north of Three River Falls went to Warroad at top of Minnesota, north
from Crookston went to St. Boniface and Winnipeg in Manitoba.

The diagonal line NW out of Fertile should be in the Tilden map but aren't.

[Polk County, Wisc. stations : http://www.co.polk.wi.us/map/    ]

Rail bridge in Crookston:
http://www.crookston.mn.us/assets/images/railroad380.jpg

Erskine, Minnesota GN depot, 2003: http://www.gngoat.org/03erskine.jpg


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End of RSHSDepot Digest V1 #985
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