he first seeds were planted in 1917. At the time, the world was fighting in The Great War, the Ford Motor Company manufactured its two-millionth Model T and a gallon of fuel was just four cents. That year, Henry Schmidgall moved his family to Hancock, Minnesota. He purchased a concrete factory in the small, farming village about 150 miles west of Minneapolis. By the 1940’s, Hancock Concrete was one of most pioneering, most modern concrete builders in all the United States.