and was permanently closed in 1923. The building was leased afterwards as living quarters, then housed the post office in the mid- to late 1940s. By 1910 there was also a Chevrolet dealership and garage, which generated power using gasoline engines to run the lights in the dance hall above the Kinyon Store. The land south of the railroad tracks was surveyed and platted into lots; the map was filed at the Washington County Courthouse on December 13, 1914. In 1947 the community voted to incorporate as a village, but the petition was denied because Withrow did not meet the population requirement of fifty inhabitants. Withrow was a viable community while the railroad dominated shipping. However, in the 1920s, roads were being improved, and farmers started hauling their own potatoes and cattle to market, and milk producers from Minneapolis–St. Paul began picking up milk directly from the farms. Less grain such as wheat, oats, and barley were being grown, and the grain elevator ceased operation in the mid-1920s. A special train carrying cattle would come through Withrow every Wednesday at 8:00pm. Farmers would bring their cattle to the stockyard, weigh them on a nearby scale, and load them into a stock car bound for the stockyards in South St. Paul. This practice also ended in the mid-1920s, and the stockyard was dismantled. A feed mill was located on the north side of the tracks, next to the Lambert General Store, which sold mainly groceries, candy and ice cream; a pool table and barbershop were located in the basement. The grinder of the feed mill was run by a 20-horsepower gasoline engine with a flywheel which was located in the basement of the building. It made a distinctive noise which could be heard from some distance away. The store's proximity to the depot made it a favorite for passengers waiting for a train and railroad workers alike. Fire destroyed the store in the early 1920s. The Germans constructed the only church in the area, St. Matthew's Lutheran church, southeast of Withrow. A wooden church was built in 1874 and replaced with a brick structure in 1899. In 1904 it burned down after a lightning strike and was rebuilt except for the steeple. The church is now home to the St. Croix Ballet. At the height of its population from 1900 to 1950, Withrow had a baseball team, the Gophers, a Woodmen