This week in Belle Plaine
Nothing on Belle Plaine’s calendar for the next two weeks yet.
About Belle Plaine
Belle Plaine is a river town on the Minnesota River in Scott County. Judge Andrew Chatfield picked the townsite in 1853 because it was about halfway along his usual route to hold court, and he used the French name for Beautiful Prairie. From 1868 to 1974 it was a borough, the only one in Minnesota, and in 1870 the state even backed a company to drill for salt springs here. Brick storefronts from the 1890s and early 1900s still line N Meridian and Main streets, and a house museum shows how a prosperous family lived in the 1870s.