Topic: Business and Industry / Physical Format: Postcards / County: Lincoln

Date Created:: 1915
Description:: Several Horse and buggies are parked together on the street and road of gravel. The railroad track and bridge are on the left as well as the lake. Today we would see lake homes and a golf course.
Contributing Institution:: Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1910
Description:: Below the water tower is Minnesota Highway 271. Several barns are evident right in town. One of the homes exists today as a bed and breakfast.
Contributing Institution:: Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1900 - 1920
Description:: Three elevators and the depot are present. A railroad freight car is being unloaded on the platform. Today the elevators are gone and the depot has been moved to the lake park and is now the Lincoln County Pioneer Museum
Contributing Institution:: Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1900 - 1920
Description:: The train is pulled up to the elevators. The depot is also present on the right. The elevators are the Hendricks Farmers elevator, Sexaur's, Hendricks Coop Elevator and Jennison. Only the Hendricks farmers elevator exists today as the business but not the elevator building. Two tracks were present to allow a train to come through while railroad cars were standing to be loaded. Behind the depot on the right is the water tower for trains. The trains used the water to make steam to power the engine.
Contributing Institution:: Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1913
Description:: Mr. Dickinson stands behind the desk ready to greet people. Along with the guest register, are several boxes of cigars. In the background is the dining room, tables covered with tablecloths. The hotel no longer exists. The Legion Hall stands in its place now.
Contributing Institution:: Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1910
Description:: Looking at the west side of Main Street several buildings exist today. The two story brick building in front was once an opera house, today it is Cedrics Restaurant. The brick bank buildings on the corner exist today as a private club the other is a fitness center. The last building on the west side of the street is still a church today. A wagon pulled by horses is also going down the street.
Contributing Institution:: Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1910 - 1920
Description:: Main Street is lined with cars. The traffic sign was placed art the center of the intersection. The building at the far end is the school, still seeing students today.
Contributing Institution:: Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1915
Description:: Several people are on main street, the train and the circus are in town with large tents set up. Many of the business men lived with their families above their stores. Some of these families got to the second floor by outside steps.
Contributing Institution:: Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1900 - 1910
Description:: A view of the west side of Main Street with many of these buildings still standing today.
Contributing Institution:: Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1915
Description:: Buildings only go a couple of blocks west of Main Street. The railroad is present and land is farmed right up to Lake Hendricks. Today houses are present up to the lake.
Contributing Institution:: Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1910 - 1915
Description:: This is a view from the Hendricks water tower looking east. The school faces Park street with the homes on Park Street looking very similar today. On each side of the school are the boys and girls outhouses. This building eventually burned down.
Contributing Institution:: Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1910 - 1920
Description:: Many present day structures in this picture exist today. The water tower is unchanged as are several of the homes and Main Street buildings. In the background is Lake Hendricks.
Contributing Institution:: Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1914
Description:: The three men with aprons on are clerks and butchers and a customer sits with a cigar. Sides of meat are hanging nearby with United States Department of Agriculture certificates of inspection. A large block of cheese with one fourth cut out sits on a table in the open. All of this is unrefrigerated in the early butcher shop.
Contributing Institution:: Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1900 - 1920
Description:: The mail carrier is sitting in his wagon, pulled by two horses. This was for the United States Mail RFD (Rural Free Delivery).
Contributing Institution:: Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

Date Created:: 1920
Description:: Four of these buildings remain today, looking much as they did in this picture. The building at the south end is under construction. It was the creamery. Today it is being renovated to be used as a brewery.
Contributing Institution:: Lincoln County Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Postcards

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