Day trip up the river

  We took Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang out for a ride on the Vermillion river today.

This little guy tagged along......

Took a spin past "Eddy Street"

 The storefronts look like a toy model of a quaint little town.

Picked out some new duds.........New hat.....New boots...............

Stopped in at "Fast Eddie's"

We didn't stop in at the "Busted Nut" this trip.
However, the next time we are in Hastings
we just might stop on in for some cold beer
and a big basket of fresh, salted-in-the-shell peanuts.

Checked out this odd little beauty, (for a friend).

Checked out this abandoned World War II munitions factory

Gopher Munitions Plant (a.k.a. "The U-Lands")

During World War II, the Federal Government acquired 13,000 acres of farmland in Rosemount, displacing 90 families in 1942. Construction of the Gopher Ordnance Works (a munitions plant) on said farmland began in May of 1942 by E.I. Dupont deNemours and Company.


Twenty thousand workers and 856 new buildings were part of the project at a cost of $123,855,448. Operations of the war munitions plant, which was never fully functioning, ceased in April of 1945 when the war ended.

At that time 8,000 acres of the land were obtained by the University of Minnesota and a number of the buildings were used during the 1947-48 polio outbreak. Currently, the University of Minnesota’s Agricultural Research Station and the Dakota County Technical College are located on part of the site.



(from the City of Rosemount's homepage)

Historic Hastings Courthouse built in 1870

Ornate Foyer

Beauty School

The Mississippi River at Hastings. Just before the river meets the St. Croix, in Prescott.