Winnipeg Junction is a ghost town

Ghost town

A ghost town is an abandoned town or city. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, or nuclear disasters...

 in section 22 of Highland Grove Township

Highland Grove Township, Minnesota

Highland Grove Township is a township in Clay County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 304 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000,...

 in Clay County

Clay County, Minnesota

Clay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, the population was 58,999. Its name is in honor of American statesman Henry Clay, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky and United States Secretary of State in the 19th century. Its county seat is Moorhead...

, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

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History

Winnipeg Junction was established in 1885 with the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The town developed rapidly and within twenty years had a church, three stores, three saloons, two restaurants, two hotels, a bakery, a grain elevator, a school, three livery stables, and a post office which operated from 1887 until 1910. However the railroad moved its line to a more favorable grade in 1909, and the town subsequently died, its businesses and residents moving to the adjacent communities of Manitoba Junction and Dale

Dale, Minnesota

Dale is a ghost town in section 34 of Highland Grove Township in Clay County, Minnesota, United States.-History:The village of Dale was established by Andrew L. Jelsing when he purchased and moved Ole Gool's saloon from Winnipeg Junction. In addition to owning the saloon, Jelsing was also...

. Little trace of the town remains today.