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WMSTR, or the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion, is an annual, non-profit "steam meet" held in the small town of Rollag, Minnesota.It takes place over the weekend of the US Labor Day holiday (first Monday in September), and draws around 80,000 visitors during the four days of the event.
Vacated in 1974 and repurposed as Hastings City Hall in 1993. NRHP-listed (refnum 78003069). Dodge County Courthouse: Dodge: Mantorville: 1871 Greek Revival and Italianate. Minnesota's oldest active courthouse.
Nowthen Threshing Show - Annual show held on the third full weekend (Friday-Sunday) in August, in Nowthen, Minnesota. [38] Pageant of Steam - (1960- ) annual fair held in Canandaigua, New York [39] Pawnee Steam and Gas Engine Show - held first full weekend in May in Pawnee, OK; Pioneer Engineers Club of Rushville, IN - yearly show in Rushville ...
The Ramsey Mill was built by Alexander Ramsey and Dr. Thomas Foster in 1856–1857 on the Vermillion River in the town of Hastings in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The river had a head of 19 feet (6 m) and a width of 50 feet (15 m) near the 4 story gristmill. An addition included a cooper shop and storage facility. Although Ramsey sold his ...
In 1965, it was donated to the Minnesota Transportation Museum, where it was stored until 1972 when it was sold to the Western Minnesota Steam Thresher's Reunion, whose volunteers restored it to operation in 1978 for use during their threshing show at Rollag, Minnesota.
Hastings (/ ˈ h eɪ s t ɪ ŋ z / HAY-stingz) [5] is a city mostly in Dakota County, Minnesota, of which it is the county seat, with a portion in Washington County, Minnesota, United States. [6] It is near the confluence of the Mississippi , Vermillion, and St. Croix Rivers .
Almelund is also well known throughout east–central Minnesota for hosting the annual Threshing Show. It is a sixty-year-old celebration of vintage tractors, old farm equipment and traditional threshing methods. [4] Almelund's slogan is "The Busiest Small Town in Minnesota". [1]
Each year, the National Threshers Association reunion/show features approximately 50 steam engines - all operating - in addition to hundreds of gas tractors and gas engines. Daily demonstrations include wheat threshing , straw baling , sawmill , a shingle mill, farm plowing , and machinery parades with covered grandstand seating for spectators.