St. Vincent Memories

J. J. Hill Dead In St. Paul Home At The Age of 77   Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES ST. PAUL, May 29--James J. Hill, builder of the "N...

Depot built 1906 (joint GN/SOO Depot) - 30' x 137' frame.  Depot remodeled 1912.  Burned 1921.  Depot 30' x 138' rebuilt ...

The  railway mail service  was... The state’s first international  RPO , the St. Vincent & Winnipeg, initiated service from that Kit...

PHOTO INFO:  A stereoview showing the railroad track along the eastern bank of the Red River in St. Vincent.   This track is the continuat...

R ecently, I came across an online post by someone who mentioned that his grandfather had worked on the St. Vincent Extension line.  Whil...

Electus Backus Litchield "Flagrantly & monumentally impudent" H ow did the St. Vincent Extension (which was the rail line...

Photograph of St. Vincent depot, as described in the article below... O ne of the great things about our readers is how they participate...

This is a working map primarily of abandoned railroad lines across North America, with layers to include abandonments in other countries, in...

V ERY large scan of an 1878 stereograph of St. Vincent and Pembina, taken from Minnesota side of the Red River of the North. Note th...

[Courtesy:  Kittson County History Center & Museum] At the Zenith of its production years, the early elevated view seen above of the man...

The early spur track into St. Vincent went down to the river, then followed it some ways north.  In this stereoview, you can see Pembina...

From the 1893 Plat Atlas - Click to Enlarge [Map Credit:  Library of Congress] I n the section of Pembina shown above - part of the 18...

A s I have earlier hypothesized  when discussing St. Vincent's earlier incorporation (the first of two), it appears I was right -  it wa...

"The Greatest Show on Earth..." One of my earliest memories is of one night my father working a late shift at the depot , a...

Threshing at the Walter Hill Farm in Northcote (1900);  this was the year my grandmother began working in the farm's dairy. [Click...

Co-Workers of my Grandpa Fitzpatrick at Humboldt Hill Farm:  'Illegal' Canadians? W e often hear about illegal aliens working ...

From a traveler's observation of an immigrant train arriving in St. Vincent comes this account... It was a dull rainy evening when we...

Humboldt, MN Great Northern depot looking SW (June 1969) Source:   Great Northern Railway Historical Society   I can't say I remem...