“Dam.” For more than 80 years, the dam spanning the river at the Rapidan Mill has blocked the migration upstream of any number of freshwater and anadromous fish seeking to spawn upstrea ...

David Hruska and his family return to their old home beside the Blue Earth River. They walk along the riverbank near the ...

Brown County Historical Society hosted Lunch and a bite of history, Thursday afternoon for Remembering the Rapidan Dam with ...

Brown County Historical Society hosted Lunch and a bite of history, Thursday afternoon for Remembering the Rapidan Dam with ...

The Brown County Historical Society invites the public to kick off the 2025 Lunch and a Bite of History season on Thursday, May 15, with a special presentation by Rick Pepper titled Remembering the ...

MANKATO – The battered Rapidan Dam at his back, Gov. Tim Walz proposed a bonding bill of $887 million that could fix impaired dams and other projects across the state on Thursday. The governor ...

The Rapidan Dam near Mankato will likely survive this flood. But what about the next? Destructive flooding in 2019 and 2020 had previously left the 114-year-old hydroelectric plant inoperable and ...

The 11-foot high, 12-foot-deep and 200-foot wide concrete Rapidan Mill dam blocks migrating shad, river herring, striped bass, eels and other fish from native spawning and rearing grounds upstream.

A few miles outside Mankato, Minnesota, painted blue and white with a vintage Pepsi sign hanging out front, the Rapidan Dam store stood for more than 50 years. That’s how long Jenny Barnes and ...

Two former workers of the Rapidan Dam with 23 years of combined experience say last month’s partial failure was not just an act of God, insisting instead that the breach could have been prevented.