Hastings Foundry-Star Iron Works

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Hastings Foundry-Star Iron Works
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The Hastings Foundry-Star Iron Works from the south
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Location Hastings, Minnesota
Coordinates 44°44′44″N92°50′39″W / 44.74556°N 92.84417°W / 44.74556; -92.84417 Coordinates: 44°44′44″N92°50′39″W / 44.74556°N 92.84417°W / 44.74556; -92.84417
Built1859
ArchitectA.R. Morrell
NRHP reference # 79001229 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 31, 1979

The Hastings Foundry-Star Iron Works is a historic foundry building in Hastings, Minnesota, United States. Located at 707 First Street East, it was built by A. R. Morrell, an ironsmith from Vermont, in 1859. The building is historically significant as the location where the first steam engine in Minnesota was built (1860). In 1861 the engine for the Stella Whipple was manufactured there as well. Iron for bridges and engines for railroad elevators, automobiles, and river boats were manufactured in this earliest surviving industrial site in the state. [2] [3]

Foundry factory that produces metal castings

A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal into a mold, and removing the mold material after the metal has solidified as it cools. The most common metals processed are aluminium and cast iron. However, other metals, such as bronze, brass, steel, magnesium, and zinc, are also used to produce castings in foundries. In this process, parts of desired shapes and sizes can be formed.

Hastings, Minnesota City in Minnesota, United States

Hastings is a city in Dakota and Washington counties, in the U.S. state of Minnesota, near the confluence of the Mississippi, Vermillion, and St. Croix Rivers. Its population was 22,172 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Dakota County, which contains most of it as well as a small part extending into Washington County. It is named for the first elected governor of the state of Minnesota, Henry Hastings Sibley.

Vermont U.S. state in the United States

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. 2007-01-23.
  2. "Historic Sites:Hastings". Dakota County Historical Society. 2005. Archived from the original on 2004-05-11. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
  3. Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota . Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN   0-87351-448-3.