Center Valley in 1940

Remember the little place that Sue and I went to find last summer?  It was a potential village seven miles east of Pierz called Center Valley.  Her great grandparents, John and Ket (Mueller) Hesch, operated a store there around 1920.  We found only the foundations of a creamery and store, plus a few other odd buildings...in a pasture.  With an electric fence. 

WELL.  If you read the last post, you saw that Larry the wonder-researcher found a Minnesota DNR site with pictures taken from the air as early as 1940.  Yes, Center Valley was pictured, altho someone drew on the photo with a grease pencil, and circled the buildings in Center Valley.  But still.

 
Larry took the current aerial photo and faded it to the 1940 map--WAY COOL, huh??

(No, we didn't draw on the aerial map...someone did that in 1940).