Goodhue’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Goodhue. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Goodhue was incorporated in 1889. Goodhue formerly had a rail line running through the eastern edge of the incorporated area, roughly parallel to and west of State Highway 58.
The Goodhue Area Historical Society constructed a museum in the community named in honor of James M. Goodhue, a newspaperman who was the first editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Since the mid-1990s, Goodhue, like many Midwestern municipalities with medium to large elevator operations, has seen its housing base and population grow.
The first significant growth in 20 years began with construction of several homes in an annexed area north of Third Avenue and west of Sixth Street known as "East side".
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Goodhue’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Goodhue’s history is told.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewMain business street, looking nor…, 1908: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Goodhue
See all 1 →Goodhue, decade by decade
1950s
1990s
Nothing in Goodhue is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Goodhue has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is District No. 20 School in Hay Creek, 7.2 miles away.
Goodhue and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Main business street, looking north, Goodhue, Minn (1908) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.