Henderson Station is an
unincorporated community in
Tyrone Township, Le Sueur County, Minnesota
Tyrone Township is a township in Le Sueur County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 564 for the 2000 census.
Organized in 1858, it was named after County Tyrone in Ireland.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, ...
, United States. The community is also known as ''East Henderson''. It is east of
Henderson, and six miles north of
Le Sueur.
The community is located along Henderson Station Road–Le Sueur County Road 34. Highway 19 (
MN 19) and
U.S. 169 are nearby.
The community of Henderson Station was originally established in the 1850s as ''Clarksville'', located on the east side of the
Minnesota River
The Minnesota River ( dak, Mnísota Wakpá) is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 332 miles (534 km) long, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It drains a watershed of in Minnesota and about in South Dakota and Iowa.
It ris ...
, opposite the city of Henderson in adjacent Sibley County. The community was organized in 1855, platted in 1877, incorporated in 1883, but has since returned to being an unincorporated community in section 7 within Tyrone Township.
Henderson Station had a ferry from 1856 to 1877, a general store, and a grain elevator, which closed in 1960.
It had a station on the former
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway
The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway or ''Omaha Road'' was a railroad in the U.S. states of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota. It was incorporated in 1880 as a consolidation of the Chicago, St. Paul and Minne ...
in section 6 of Tyrone Township.
Ney Nature Center is nearby.
The Henderson Station Road was the setting for scenes in
Purple Rain.
[Fischenich, Mark ]
Road near Henderson was setting for indelible 'Purple Rain' scenes
. Mankato Free Press, April 27, 2016 Note:"Not-Lake Minnetonka was actually the Minnesota River in famous movie scene"
References
Former municipalities in Minnesota
Unincorporated communities in Minnesota
Unincorporated communities in Le Sueur County, Minnesota
1850s establishments in Minnesota
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