Looking back: Highway 218 was renamed Highway 3 this week in ‘62
Highway 3 got its name, a barking dog saved a family from a fire and plans were made for a new weigh station north of Farmington. Read on to see what else was going on this week in Farmington's history.
50 years ago
From the January 18, 1962
edition of the
Dakota County Tribune
Highway 218 becomes T.H. 3
The highway, running from the northern tip to the southern tip of Dakota County – known for decades as Highway 218 has now become Number 3.
U.S. Highway 218 terminates at its junction with trunk highway 14 at Owatonna, Minnesota number 218 will be eliminated and replaced by trunk Highway 3 between its junction with highways 14 and 65 in Owatonna and Wabasha street in St. Paul, and will be eliminated from St. Paul to Becker.
Several changes in trunk highway numbers are being instituted this month for better continuity and integration of highways in the system according to the highway department.
Changes will be shown in the new 1962 road maps which are expected from the printers on or about February 1. Changing of the numbers of 18 highways is underway.
Local school open house January 21
The Farmington high school will have an open house Sunday afternoon, January 21, from 2 until 4 p.m.
Members of the school board and faculty, the architects, with help of student ushers, will be glad to show visitors the various areas of the addition and the remodeled rooms of the high school building.
The addition includes a new gymnasium – auditorium with shower and locker area for boys, home economics, library, industrial arts and vocational agriculture rooms on the first floor; a band room, science and commercial rooms on the second floor.
The remodeling of the old building included a girls’ shower and locker room in the old home economics rooms, two junior high school science rooms and the high school administrative office suite.
Ron Kaufenberg signs beauty salon lease for arcade
Ronald M. Kaufenberg, 2001 Stevens Avenue, Minneapolis, originally from New Market, has signed a lease with Ken Nelson’s Town’s Edge Shopping center, to operate a beauty salon in the arcade building, north of the Red Owl store.
The salon will be located in the back of the barber shop. There are six places in the arcade, and Nelson himself will also have an office there....
The new Farmington businessman said he will probably have one other employee to begin with. He will have the latest in equipment, all air-conditioned dryers, and the building is to be completely air-conditioned.
75 years ago
From the January 22, 1937
edition of the
Dakota County Tribune
Barking dog arouses family threatened by Westwood fire
Awakened by a barking tramp dog, Mrs. James Crawford discovered a fire that was eating its way through the garage and machine shed at Westwood Farms four miles east of here at 2:15 Tuesday morning. About $5,000 damage was done to machinery and buildings.
Sensing danger, the dog ran to Mrs. Crawford’s bedroom door and barked until the farm manager’s wife was aroused and found the building back of the house in flames, believed to have started from a short circuit.
Mrs. Crawford called her husband and telephoned for the Farmington fire department while the husband aroused the other three men at the farm, Max Motley, George Dreis and Wm. Mallery.
Flames in the east section of the machine shed were attacked by the men using the fire hose and equipment at the farm. Two tractors in the west section of the shed were driven to safety....
The flames had razed a large portion of the shed before the fire was extinguished. The men were hampered by 20 below zero weather and the fact that the fire had a good start.
State to weigh trucks, north of Farmington
The State Highway Department called for bids on four dual platform pit scales, to be opened Feb. 5th. The scales will be located four miles north of Farmington on Trunk Highway No. 218; three miles north of Shakopee, on T.H. No. 169 and T.H. No. 212; six miles southeast of Elk River on Nos. 10, 52, 169 and 218; and four miles east of Scanlon, on T.H. No. 61.
The estimated cost of the equipment, for the weighing of buses and trucks up to 30,000 pounds will be in the neighborhood of $10,000. The survey will be informative only, according to R.J. Short, state manager, and no prosecutions will result. Cooperation of all truck and bus companies in this nation wide project is expected.
Dancing teacher to come here
Mr. Gerald Gibson of Minneapolis will open a dancing school in Farmington.
Mr. Gibson is an instructor of very fine reputation and is employed as a teacher of dancing in Minneapolis public schools.
His lessons will consist of work in ballet and tap dancing. Children of all ages, boys or girls, as well as adults are invited to join the classes which will be held in the K.C. Hall in Farmington. Pupils from surrounding towns will of course be very welcome. The first lesson will be held Wed., Jan. 27th, at 5:15 o’clock....
It might interest prospective students to know that Mr. Gibson has a moving picture camera and will take pictures of the pupils from time to time so that they may see what progress they are making.
A pair of good taps will be given free to every pupil who enrolls for a ten lesson course.
100 years ago
From the January 19, 1912
edition of the
Dakota County Tribune
Allyn on roads
G.W. Allyn of Madison Lake gave a talk on good roads at the city hall on Wednesday evening of last week. There were about thirty business men and farmers present and a great deal of interest was taken in the matter.
Mr. Allyn is a good roads enthusiast and has been the leader in the improvement of the highway about Madison Lake for many years and is well posted on the subject in question.
The plan is to gravel a 100-mile stretch between Minneapolis at once, the route between Farmington and Mankato having been published in the Tribune three weeks ago. From Farmington north the road mapped out would pass thru Akin timber, hence over the Cedar Avenue road to Minneapolis. There is a movement on foot to grade a road between Minneapolis and Duluth, also from Mankato to Sioux City, Iowa. The object is to extend the road on to Council Bluffs, Kansas City and Galveston, then west and south thru Mexico on to Panama and South to South America. The question now arises, do we want to be on that great road? We certainly do, but we must get busy. Many of our business men and farmers are willing to donate work and cash and we can see nothing much more to be done but to get together and organize and start the ball rolling.
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