Jefferson Grain Warehouse

Off MN 26, Jefferson Township, Jefferson, Minnesota. County/parish: Houston.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 25, 1994. NRIS 94001386.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Jefferson Grain Warehouse

The Jefferson Grain Warehouse is a historic warehouse in Jefferson Township, Minnesota, United States, built in 1868 on the bank of the Mississippi River. The warehouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 for having local significance in the themes of commerce and transportation. It was nominated for being a rare surviving reminder of a brief period when wheat was becoming the most important agricultural crop of the Upper Midwest yet steamboats were still the leading form of transportation.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93202078

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