Editing Preston, Minnesota (section)

==History==
Preston was [[plat]]ted in 1855.<ref>{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|author-link=Warren Upham|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n213 194]}}</ref> The community was named for Luther Preston, a [[millwright]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=21378|title=Profile for Preston, Minnesota|publisher=[[ePodunk]]|access-date=2010-05-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150708130541/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=21378|archive-date=2015-07-08|url-status=dead}}</ref> and postmaster.<ref>{{cite news|title=Where Did Minnesota Towns Get Names? Most Colorful in U.S. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1637298/minnesota_town_names/|newspaper=The Winona Republican-Herald|date=July 12, 1949|page=15|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = January 24, 2015 }} {{Open access}}</ref> The old Preston [[grain elevator]] used to be known as the Milwaukee Elevator Company Grain Elevator. It was built around 1890 for holding grain for shipment by [[railroad]] to the [[East Coast of the United States|Eastern]] cities of the United States. The elevator was last used in the 1980s. It was built with "cribbed" construction, which has to do with interlocking bins.  At the time it was a lot stronger and a lot more expensive to build it this way than to build it in stud construction. Now the Preston Historical Society is trying to restore the structure.

[[File:2009-0528-Preston-Overlook.jpg|thumb|left|The Preston Overlook on the bluff above the city]]
The [[Preston Overlook]] was built in 1937 by the Minnesota Department of Highways under the program of Federal Relief Construction during the [[New Deal]].  A site was chosen on the highest point on the bluffs above the [[Root River (Minnesota)|Root River]], 90 feet below.  The Preston Overlook was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2003.