Henderson Station is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Tyrone Township, Le Sueur County, Minnesota, United States. The community is also known as ''East Henderson''. It is east of
Henderson Henderson may refer to:
People
*Henderson (surname), description of the surname, and a list of people with the surname
* Clan Henderson, a Scottish clan
Places Argentina
*Henderson, Buenos Aires
Australia
*Henderson, Western Australia
Canada
*H ...
, 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 () 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 rises in southwestern ...
, 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 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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