Forestville and Mystery Cave State Park
Sep 8-11
This park offers two parks in one, history from years ago and a cave with all years of nature.
Forestville State Park
This history site brings you back to 1899 at the hight of Forestville. You walk across the Carnegie Steel Bridge you see a couple of buildings.
The Forestville Town Tour
Tour starts and ends at the big barn. A short talk about how Forestville town started and end. The town was a nice size. It had a general store, a brickyard, blacksmith, post office, a school, hotel, saw mill, and a cabinet shop. Because the railroad did not come close to the town many people left the town. The Meighen gave the site to the state and it became a state park in 1963. In 1978, the Minnesota Historical Society operates the Historical Foresville.
Part of the tour takes you though the general store owned by Thomas Meighen family. There are many things to see in the store from that time period.
They walk you into the Thomas Meighen Family home where you see his office and post office. Then walk you into the living room to see old family photos, games and furniture they used.
Tour bring you into the kitchen where the cook is making food for the family, guest and workers.
Then the gardener takes over the tour, showing their garden.
The barn near the house has a number of heirloom chickens, which roam freely on the grounds.
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