The community had indoor athletic facilities for basketball, table tennis and billiards, and it also served as a theater.
During the 1920s and 1930s the company fielded a baseball team that travelled around the Ohio Valley and also played home games in Hastings.
Entertainment being at a premium, the Sunday afternoon games were attended by hundreds of people as the field was located adjacent to the railroad tracks.
Future major leaguer Floyd Giebell pitched here prior to becoming a Detroit Tiger in the late 1930s.
Dominion continues to operate a natural gas processing site and a group of loading stations at Hastings and at Galmish three miles downstream.