Embden Depot

Embden Depot. . The Embden Depot was built in 1900. The town of Embden moved from its original location near the farm of Enos Gray, the postmaster of Embden, to a spot along a new spur line of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The new line through Embden was called the Casselton-Marion Branch because it went from Casselton to Marion (See the map)., In 1883, Enos Gray built the first Embden Post Office. Gray was an early Cass County settler who homesteaded near Gill Township in 1879. He named it after his hometown of Embden, Maine, where he was born in 1829. In 1891, the original Embden Post Office closed. Eight years later, construction on the new spur line between Casselton and Marion began. With this new transportation line opening, it appeared growth was possible in the area. William F. Krueger purchased a section of land from the Northern Pacific Railway not far from the old Embden Post Office and plotted it into lots and streets. This plat of land became the reconstituted town of Embden. The depot operated from 1900 until the late 1960s. The Burlington-Northern Railroad Company, now the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company, later phased out the depot and donated it to Bonanzaville in 1970., (Captions) , Embden Depot circa 1900. , This 1901 Cram's Standard American Railway System Atlas Of The World shows the town of Embden along the Northern Pacific spur between Casselton and Marion.