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Photograph of Reads Landing School
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Reads Landing School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Reads Landing School is a former school building in the unincorporated community of Reads Landing, Minnesota, United States. Built in 1870, it has been converted into the Wabasha County Historical Society Museum.”

Wikipedia article Reads Landing School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Wabasha County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Third St. and First Ave., Reads Landing, 55968
  • When was it listed? January 1989
  • Category. building
  • Township. Pepin township
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 88003217 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

10,395 words

This property stands in Pepin Township. History of Wabasha County : Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, Etc. : Gathered from Matter Furnished by Interviews with Old Settlers, County, Township, and Other Records, and Extracts from Files of Papers, Pamphlets, and Such Other Sources As Have Been Available : Also a History of Winona County, published 1884 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Pepin Township - 10,395 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Reads Landing School between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
17 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2021008
6 May 2016Debris and open burning3.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 1994Smoking2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018007

Every fire recorded in Wabasha County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Reads Landing School: 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Freiheit QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Marky Bluff Rd Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Charles Serene, Jr. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lake Pepin Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Wabasha Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Winona S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wabasha County

Storms near this property

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reads Landing, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997HailReads Landing$10,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabasha County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Reads Landing Overlook1.5 miles2004
Alexander Thoirs House2.5 miles1989
Hurd House-Anderson Hotel2.5 miles1978
William H. and Alma Downer Campbell House2.6 miles1989
Wabasha Commercial Historic District2.6 miles1982
Lorenz and Lugerde Ginthner House2.6 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88003217 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wabasha CountyAll 26 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.