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  • MnDOT asks motorists to share road during harvest
    September 27, 2023
    Motorists traveling on Minnesota roads this fall should be aware of large farm equipment transporting crops to markets, grain elevators and processing plants, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation. “Harvest season is ramping up across Minnesota, and farmers need the highways to access their fields and deliver crops to market,” said Scott Thompson, traffic engineer. “Both…
  • 1958: $162,437 in county road improvement contracts awarded
    By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical Society
    June 04, 2019
    The following appeared in the Rock County Star Herald on April 10, 1958.   County Road Improvement Contracts Total $162,437          Rock county’s Board of Commissions Tuesday awarded a total of $162,437.27 in three contracts for road improvement this year.          Major projects will be the installation of a gravel base and bituminous surface costing $102,898.67 for 10.7 miles on C.S.A. No. 5.…
  • 1926: New road resurface technique uses heated oil, gravel
    By Betty Mann, President, Rock County Historical Society
    August 29, 2017
    The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on October 15, 1926:   Minnesota’s highway department the first of this week completed the task of oiling and resurfacing with gravel the two-mile stretch of trunk highway No. 6, between the Kniss avenue paving and state road No. 8 north of this city. Oil was heated and put on under pressure by an especially designed machine, and the oil was…
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