History · Baudette
Baudette’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Baudette. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
1 old photo or paper
1 historic places
3 famous people
From Baudette’s archive · credits on each photo
What stands out about Baudette’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out Start Baudette’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Baudette’s history is told.
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album. The story How Baudette came to be From Wikipedia’s history of Baudette.
Read it all → Baudette was incorporated in 1907. It was started by European Americans as a steamboat landing and lumber town with a sawmill, after the railroad was constructed through the area in 1901. It was named for Joseph Beaudette, a trapper of French-Canadian descent who had been in the area since the early 1880s. The post office at Baudette began in 1900, first called "Port Hyland", after postmaster Daniel Hyland. The name was changed to "Baudette" in 1901. Baudette had a station of the Minnesota and Manitoba Railroad, now absorbed by the Canadian National Railway.
Text from Wikipedia , licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 .
At a glance
Half its homes built before 1982
Oldest landmark with a date Canadian National Railways Depot, 1923
Oldest item in the archive 1850
People in 2020 966 The houses today → By decade Baudette, decade by decade One decade in the archive so far: the 1850s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Then & now Stand where they stood No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this view 1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Minnesota - Lake of the Woods County - ED 39-1, ED 39-2, ED 39-3, ED 39…, 1850 Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Baudette’s page.
Retake this view · +15 On the National Register 1 historic place in Baudette The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
2005
Canadian National Railways Depot
in Minnesota
#237
by listings
Architectural styles listings Bungalow/Craftsman 1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Famous people 3 famous people were born in Baudette Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
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What used to stand where something else is now in Baudette? → Who remembers Baudette in the 1950s? → A family story from old Baudette → Does anyone have photos of Baudette from the 1990s? →
From Wikimedia Commons (5), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia and Wikidata for famous people. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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