On This Date in Minnesota History: August 2

August 2, 1870 – “Construction of the main railroad line from St. Paul to Duluth is completed and Washington County’s first railroad station is established in Forest Lake at West Broadway Avenue.”

http://projects.wchsmn.org/reference/events/first-railroad-station/ 

Forest Lake railroad station, Forest Lake, Minn., 1906
http://www.lakesnwoods.com/ForestLakeGallery.htm

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