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Published November 10, 2011, 10:24 AM

Notes on Hastings' history

Hastings came to be known as Oliver’s Grove when U.S. Army Lt. W. G. Oliver and his nine-man military detachment, bringing supplies to Fort Snelling in 1819, encountered freezing water and bad weather and were forced to spend the winter here in log cabins they built.

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