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History · Eagle Bend

Eagle Bend’s post office opened in 1882, and 46% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Eagle Bend High School.

1882first post office
1on the National Register
46%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Eagle Bend began

When was Eagle Bend founded?

1882

The Eagle Bend post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 546144 years
Founding year: the first Eagle Bend post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Eagle Bend’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Eagle Bend are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Eagle Bend’s homes were built before 1945.
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The story

How Eagle Bend came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Eagle Bend.

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Eagle Bend was first settled in the early 1880s. The first pioneers were Charles O'Dell, a merchant, and Marion Crider, a homesteader from eastern Kentucky. When O'Dell opened his general store, his first customer was Crider, who bought a pound of coffee. The townsite was purchased by a railroad executive, Benjamin F. Abbott, who wished to change the name of the town to Abbottsville; however, sensibility prevailed and the evocative name of Eagle Bend was retained. The post office was established in O'Dell's store in 1882, and the village was incorporated on January 21, 1890.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Eagle Bend, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Former Eagle Bend High School, Eagle Bend, Minnesota-012024Former Eagle Bend High School, Eagle Bend, Minnesota-…City Hall and Fire Department2024City Hall and Fire DepartmentBuilding2024BuildingEagle Bend MN Main Street2021Eagle Bend MN Main StreetEagle Bend MN City Hall2021Eagle Bend MN City HallEagle Bend Museum & Library2015Eagle Bend Museum & Library
On the National Register

1 historic place in Eagle Bend

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2024
Eagle Bend High School
Eagle Bend High School
Buildings
All 1 listings
Eagle Bend High SchoolBuilding · listed 2024

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Places now gone and burying grounds

Eagle Bend’s post office has been open since 1882.

Gone or out of use
Eagle Bendlocale
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Eagle Bend
Eagle BendGerman

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Wykeham TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Eagle Bend’s history

What year was Eagle Bend founded?

The Eagle Bend post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Eagle Bend?

One place: the Eagle Bend High School (listed 2024).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.