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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.
The Rev. Elmer Ritzman, the founding editor of Iron Man Album (a magazine devoted to preserving the heritage of threshing and farm life in general, now owned by Ogden Publications and titled Steam Traction Magazine) was a major proponent of the first R&T show, and served as an R&T director for many years.
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.
Walden Avenue is also in the immediate area. Heatwole is the home of the annual Heatwole Threshing Show every second weekend in August. The community was named for Joel Prescott Heatwole, a newspaper editor and politician, who served as mayor of Northfield, Minnesota from 1894 to 1895. Heatwole served in the U.S. House of Representatives from ...
Albany Township (/ ˈ ɔː l b ən i / AWL-bə-nee) [3] is a township in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 980 at the 2010 census. [ 4 ] The city of Albany is surrounded by the township.
The Nowthen Threshing Show has been an annual event for over 40 years. It is a three-day event that takes place during the third full weekend in August. There are many attractions including tractor pulls, music, sawmill demonstrations and more.
The following is a list of those who defended the Forest City Stockade in September 1862 who were mustered in on August 24,1862 (names noted w/*) and known as the 'Meeker County Volunteers' by August 28, 1862.
Albany (/ ˈ ɔː l b ən i / AWL-bə-nee) [4] is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,561 at the 2010 census . [ 5 ] It is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area .