I can remember that in the late fourties that Sanborn had a set of cattle pens to load cattle on the railroad. A nonfunctioning sugarbeet loading facility, also, was located at the railroad. The school was about a half mile south of the railroad. When was the last year they held school in that building? I have heard from various sources, Tom Brown, being one, that there might have been a store as well. Can anybody fill in the blanks for me. I can remember Dad herding some of our cattle down to those pens and along with Lee Clegg and his cattle would load them on the cattle cars and then they would ride the train in the caboose to "Saint Jo" to sell them. That was the best regional cattle msrket in those days. Reading the postings on this site brings back a lot of memories. Thanks to those of you who do.
~Kay Haptonstall
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Sanborn got its name from a man who worked on the railroad. He lived down by the highway in the orange house.
The cattle pens were operational still in 1953.
The sugar beets loading dock was operational also.
There was a store and post office just down from the school.
Sanborn school district boundary was west side of the road that went south from the highway down to Freehlings. It included the Workman kids, Bragg kid, Cleggs.
In talking to Don Webster, he said he would go back to his books and do some reading and I'll send more when we talk again. The years seem to be a little fuzzy about when things changed and things happened.
Don says he remembers the Haptonstalls.
DALLAS
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