I was here in August 2021. The really weird thing is that I could have sworn I had driven by this place before. I turns out I was never near here.
In the 1980’s the town had a population of four. A 120,000 bushel UGG (United Grain Growers) elevator was built here in 1982. It was torn down in 1997. The railway tracks are long gone. The population is currently zero.
All that remains is a one room schoolhouse. It operated from 1913 - 1966.
1982 and torn down in 1997 - why did they bother building it in the first place. Makes one wonder.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like they took the old school and put it on a new foundation to make a community center.
ReplyDeleteI was part of the UGG crew that built the Harptree grain elevator in 1982. I was sad to find out it was torn down, it was the first that I worked on constructing as a very young man, fond memories indeed. (the records I found said it was torn down in 1996 though)
ReplyDeleteIt was built at the beginning of the transition to the behemoth concrete grain terminals and the beginning of the end of the local small town grain elevators. Even as the builders of these amazing structures, we were unaware of the changes to come in the very near future.