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Blue Eagle
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Blue Eagle was a settlement founded in the 1870s on what is now the west side of Westbrook, Minnesota, United States.
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When the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway ran a spur line from Bingham Lake to Currie in 1899, they negotiated with Blue Eagle for property rights. However, a dispute led to the railroad starting its own settlement, Westbrook, just to the east of Blue Eagle.
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Both towns coexisted for many years, but in the 1950s Blue Eagle was annexed into Westbrook as the “Peterson addition”.
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