Day Trip #14
Sunday, May 22, 2022
An old abandoned grain processing site in Wykoff, MN. Interesting to compare this old place with the new modern one in Winona pictured later in this post.
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Historic Forestville in Forestville State Park. What is now a ghost town maintained by the park service was once the homestead of Felix Meighen and his family.
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On certain days the buildings are open for tours, but not the day we were there. Notice the little bird sitting on the water pump handle.
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“Horse medicine, school slates, eyeglasses, flour - all might have been for sale or trade in the log cabin store opened in 1853 by Felix Meighen and Robert Foster, boyhood friends from Pennsylvania. As the only store in Fillmore County, it did a thriving business and also served as a social center for the new town of Forestville. The stagecoach station stood just beyond the store, and up the hill was the schoolhouse, located now by its foundation ruins.
In 1856, Meighen and Foster build the present store, constructed from the first brick made in the county. Although Foster withdrew from the partnership in 1868, the Meighen family kept the store open until 1910.
Some of the original trees still forest the Meighen homestead area; the family set aside land about a mile past the store as a park, and placed picnic tables for public use along the river bank. The Meighen store, complete with its 1910 inventory of merchandise is now part of Forestville State Park, which includes more than 2,000 acres.”
From Interpretive Plaque on stie.
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An outbuilding behind the main house in Historic Forestville.
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This bridge is immediately adjacent to the old Meighen homestead and crosses the South Branch of the Root River.
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This tree, along one of the hiking trails, has a rather peculiar shape.
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The view from one of the scenic overlooks along the trail.
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Varied topography with prairie and rolling hills in Forestville Park.
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In the small cemetery behind Trinity Lutheran Church in Spring Grove, MN we found these two headstones of children who were born and died on the same day. As an Obstetrician, I can’t help but think we have come a long way since 1888. If these children had been born 135 years later, it seems rather unlikely they would have met this terrible fate. One can only speculate that these were infants born either at a premature gestational age or possibly with an infection, and without the benefits of modern medicine there was no treatment available.
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Mississippi River flooding of Levee Park in Winona, MN.
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The old firehouse built in 1891 in Winona, MN. Still an active firehouse with modern trucks and equipment. Directly across the street from Penguin Zesto - a fantastic place for soft-serve ice cream!
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St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Winona, MN has great architecture.
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Watkins Medical Products in Winona, MN. They make a number of commonly available lotions, ointments, and extracts. It always smells so nice when you walk by this place.
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Bay State Milling plant in Winona, MN. Compare this to the one above in Wykoff, MN.
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One day we will stop here for a beverage. They have a nice outdoor seating space right along Levee Park and the river.
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