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1951 Map of Annandale

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Annandale
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1970
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1970

About this map

The Mississippi River defines the northeastern boundary of this Central Minnesota landscape, where the Great Northern railway connects riverfront settlements like Clearwater to the broader agricultural interior. At mid-century, the region maintains a dense network of rural infrastructure, visible in the numerous numbered schoolhouses such as School No 18 and School No 151 that served the townships of Corinna, Lynden, and Maine Prairie. Local history is deeply etched into the terrain through family and community burial grounds, including Acacia Cem and Mt Hope Cem.

Glacial lake systems dominate the southern half of the sheet, where Annandale sits surrounded by water bodies like Pleasant Lake and the complex shoreline of Clearwater Lake, which features the prominent Bungalow Island. The map records the early 1950s transition from a predominantly agrarian economy to a growing recreation destination, as secondary roads began to thread more densely between the lakes and older village centers like Fairhaven and South Haven.