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.
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
Two boats are pulling up to the docks on Lake Hendricks. A rowboat is filled with men, women and children. The Lady Hendricks is filled with people to the point she is almost sinking. The smoke stack of the boat is pushing out smoke. Several people and a tent are in the back ground. All people are celebrating the 4th of July.
Hendricks High School looked like this from the time it was built in 1923 until an expansion in the 1950s. The school has rows of large windows for classroom lighting and two main doors. This school was brick to decrease the fire risk after the first school was destroyed by fire.
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.
Participants celebrating the 50 year anniversary of the first settlers in Hendricks, Minnesota. A man Is standing by a wagon pulled by a team of oxen. Four more people are dressed as a trapper and early immigrants standing next to a sod house.
Selma Crofoot holds the whip and the rains, while Virgil Trulock at age 3 is at the other end of the harness as the horse. In the background is the house and empty prairie.
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.
The west side of the building, looks the same today. The south and the east have had additions. Rows of tall windows on both first and second floor provided classroom lighting.
The Tyler Band was under direction of Mr. Siverson. The band was all male with trumpets clarinets, trombones drums and even a French horn. All of the men and boys are wearing suits.
Wedding picture of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Reiten. Mr. Reiten has his best suit with a bow tie, Mrs. Reiten is sitting in her wedding dress with veil and a bouquet of flowers in her lap.
A page with six postcards attached, featuring six views of Lincoln County. Top left: Lake Benton, Minnesota, looking to the north east. Top right: Lake Benton, Minnesota, looking south coming down United States Highway 75. Middle left: Lake Benton, Minnesota, looking northeast. Middle right: Tyler, Minnesota, Main Street looking north. Lower left: boys swimming at Lake Benton. Lower right: Loy's Point on Lake Benton.
Trinity Lutheran Church still stands today. It is on the northeast corner of Main Street and Hobart. The church has been added to since this picture was taken. The church at this time was at the edge of town with no other buildings around it.
This church was built in 1891. it was used for church services until 1919 when a new church was built in Hendricks, Minnesota. This building was located 1 mile east and one half mile north of Hendricks, Minnesota. It was finally taken down in 1945.
The Methodist Episcopal Church was built on lot 18 of block 3 in Hendricks. It served as a church until 1965 when it was sold and torn down by Glen Johnson and Kenneth Buseth. The church is here with longer grass around it and many newly planted trees on the boulevard.
The Norwegian Lutheran Church is on the left. This church still remains as is but is the Methodist church. The church on the right is Trinity Lutheran Church. It remains today and looks the same.
The Norwegian Lutheran Church, Hendricks, Minnesota, became a spinoff congregation from Singsaas Lutheran Church. This building was First Lutheran Church until they moved to another building in 1963. Today this building is the Grace United Methodist church. When built the church was at the edge of town , only longer grass around it with no other buildings.
Two men Ernest Schorfe and Leo Swenson are sitting in a 1910 Buick. The steering wheel is on the right, the hand brakes are outside the car and it has no top.