Workers are demolishing a bridge in Blue Earth County that was damaged after the partial failure of the nearby Rapidan Dam last year. The hope is to remove the County Road 9 bridge before “the ...

Construction of the Rapidan Dam was finished in 1910 and is described by the county as a hollow concrete dam, founded on sandstone bedrock in a steep, U-shaped valley.

RAPIDAN, MINN. – Imagine a six-story building, perched precariously, inching its way across a narrow bridge, a churning river below. In 1949, that’s exactly what happened at the Rapidan Dam ...