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Blue Mound Trail reconstruction project slated to begin June 26
By Lori Sorenson
June 25, 2025
Construction will start this week on 4.2 miles of the Blue Mound Trail between Luverne and the Blue Mounds State Park. Rock County Highway Engineer Mark Sehr, who is overseeing the project, said trail reconstruction is set to begin Thursday, June 26, weather permitting. He said the project was prompted by surface cracking that has occurred through the years since the trail was first paved in…
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…