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“The railroad was the making of the south side. It was almost a separate community. Whereas farther north in town, there was lumber and then banking, merchants and the university.”
Wendell Nelson
“It was devastating for the south side. The loss of the passenger business meant the closing of a lot of hotels, restaurants and taverns down there. It took away a lot of the life.”
“The engineers were well paid, so they could afford large, well-made houses. They were really among the important people in town. For decades, between the 1880s and 1920s, both the Point Journal and the old Gazette had a separate column for the south side.”
