Minnesota's Lost Towns by Rhonda Fochs

Author:Rhonda Fochs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Minnesota, History, Ghost Town
Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc.
Published: 2014-06-11T00:00:00+00:00

Noyes Post Office. (Courtesy of John Gallagher, Post Mark Collectors Club)

Noyes. (Courtesy of Andrew Filer)

Orleans

1883-1974

CLASS C

APPROXIMATE LOCATION:

From Hallock:

U.S. County Road 1 North for 10 miles. Left for ½ mile.

Orleans may not have been big but it was an important trading center. Settled as Boulder in 1897 and established as Orleans in 1904 when the Soo Line Railroad came through the county, the community was based on a farming foundation. Home to four grain elevators, the town also included two banks, a lumberyard, two stores, a blacksmith or two, restaurants, a hotel, and a school. When one of the stores burned to the ground, another was brought to Orleans on log rollers.

In recalling what had happened to Orleans, the Kittson County Historical Society writes that the Great Depression caused the banks to fail, an elevator and store burned, and other buildings were moved and were repurposed into homes and garages.

Today the town is gone. A few buildings remain and a few residents are in the area.

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