Floyd County Museum

J.Wondergem

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Rockford, Mi.
From the Oliver Plant archives held at the Floyd County Museum in Charles City, Iowa. View of the M-M Hopkins Plant in MN. Taken April 31, 1946.



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Thanks for sharing, is this plant still up or has it been tore down, do you know address as I'd look it up on google earth and see what it looks
like now.
 
(quoted from post at 19:03:20 04/16/15) Thanks for sharing, is this plant still up or has it been tore down, do you know address as I'd look it up on google earth and see what it looks
like now.

Someone else might chime in, but this is all I know about it, is what they put with the picture.
I never had a load going in there, but remember one of the guy's I worked with had a load going to the Hopkins plant.
 
This is what I was told was the Hopkins plant. It was far before my time when Molines were being built. I believe the original plant was torn down. This is the super-valu foods warehouse at 169 and Excelsior.
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This Hopkins plant had rails in front of it and the line running in back of it that had to be crossed to get to the "bone" yard ---or where the machines and implements that were not shipped yet or needed fixing were put. The Super Value warehouse and distribution center is east of the Hopkins plant site and was across the street (Excelsior Blvd) from the old Farmhand Equipment plant in Hopkins. Although I have not been through the town recently, I believe that the old Main office which was across the street to the North of the plant and where (in the basement) they printed the manuals for the equipment, is still standing. It is red brick with concrete face at the front door and I believe around the windows.
 



The plant site was west of Super Value about 10 blocks or so and 2 south --closer to Shady Oak road --west end of "old Hopkins" and across from the old fairgrounds.
 

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