Hastings Foundry-Star Iron Works

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location= Hastings, Minnesota
lat_degrees = 44
lat_minutes = 44
lat_seconds = 45
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 92
long_minutes = 50
long_seconds = 38
long_direction = W
locmapin = Minnesota
area =
built =1859
architect= Morrell,A.R.
architecture= No Style Listed
added = December 31, 1979
governing_body = Private
refnum=79001229cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

The Hastings Foundry-Star Iron Works located at 707 First Street East, Hastings in the U.S. state of Minnesota was built by A. R. Morrell, an ironsmith from Vermont in 1859. The building is historically significant as the location where the first steam engine in Minnesota was built (1860). In 1861, the engine for the "Stella Whipple" was manufactured here as well. Iron for bridges and engines for railroad elevators, automobiles, and river boats were manufactured in this earliest surviving industrial site in the state. [cite web| title = Historic Sites:Hastings| publisher = Dakota County Historical Society| date = 2005| url = http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/hastings.asp| accessdate =2008-02-25] cite book|title=The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota|last=Nord|first=Mary Ann|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|date=2003|isbn=0-87351-448-3]

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