If you are here because of "Galesburg, IL: Sante Fe Depot," then you need to go there.
Depot: (Satellite, I think the township building reused the depot's land.)
Today's Grain Elevator: (Satellite)
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| Andy Zukowski posted Rock Island Railroad Depot in Toulon, Illinois. Postmarked 1909 Roy Vombrack: It looks like a special occasion of some sort, people dressed up. |
The downtown grew along Main Street rather than by the depot. That tells me that the town probably existed before the railroad was built through the area. I wonder what caused this town to be founded. I don't see a river large enough to power a gristmill. Judging by the aerial below, I think the rectangle that is south of the tracks parallel to them between Henderson and Washington Streets was the depot.
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| 1844/44 Kewanee Quad @ 62,500 |
Commercial Street is along the bottom and Miller Street is along the right side.
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| 1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
If it wasn't for the shadow on the left side of the depot, I don't know if I would have noticed the building. I added letters to mark the three buildings we see in the photo at the top of these notes: D for depot, F for freight house and G for grain elevator. I can't figure out why there are no decent roads near the depot.
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| Aerial plus Paint |
The little grain elevator that we see in the right background of the above photo has grown a lot even though it lost rail service.
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| Street View, Jan 2023 |
The elevator in the middle background of the below view is the elevator in the left side of the above view. The grain elevator has grown over a significant part of the northwest side of town and can't be captured in just one view.
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| Street View, Jan 2023 |
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