St. Peter is a city located in Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States. It is located 10 miles north of Mankato - the North Mankato metropolitan area. The population is 11,196 at the 2010 census. This is the county seat in Nicollet County. St. Peter is the home of Gustavus Adolphus College.
US Highway 169 and Minnesota State Highway 22 and 99 are the three main routes in the city.
The city of St. Peter's brother is PetatlÃÆ'¡n, Guerrero, Mexico.
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Geography
According to the US Census Bureau, the city has a total area of ​​5.77 square miles (14.94 km 2 ), which is 5.59 square miles (14.48 km 2 ) is ground and 0.18 square miles (0.47 km 2 ) is water.
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Demographics
census 2010
At the 2010 census, there were 11,196 people, 3,491 households, and 2,150 families living in the city. Population density is 2,002.9 inhabitants per square mile (773.3/km 2 ). There are 3,697 housing units with an average density of 661.4 per square mile (255.4/km 2 ). City's racial makeup is 90.1% White, 3.3% African American, 0.6% Native Americans, 1.6% Asian, 2.3% of other races, and 2.0% of two or more races. Hispanic or Latin of any race is 6.4% of the population.
There are 3,491 households in which 32.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.2% are married couples living together, 11.8% have unmarried women, 3.6% have one male housekeeping without wife's presence, and 38.4% is not a family. 29.9% of all households are individuals and 12.3% have a self-sufficient 65 or older. The average household size is 2.44 and the average family size is 2.99.
The average age in the city is 27.5 years. 19.4% of the population is under 18 years of age; 27.1% were between 18 and 24; 22% from 25 to 44; 19.9% ​​is from 45 to 64; and 11.6% are 65 years old or older. The determination of city gender is 49.5% male and 50.5% female.
census 2000
In the 2000 census, there were 9,747 people, 2,978 households, and 1,843 families living in the city. Population density was 1,797.3 persons per square mile (694.3/km 2 ). There are 3,129 housing units with an average density of 577.0 per square mile (222.9/km 2 ). City's racial makeup is 94.17% White, 1.57% African American, 0.43% Native American, 1.53% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Island, 1.25% of other races, and 1.02 % of two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race is 3.04% of the population.
There are 2,978 households where 32.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.7% are married couples living together, 9.8% have unmarried female households present, and 38, 1% is not family. 28.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 12.8% have someone living alone 65 or older. The average household size is 2.46 and the average family size is 2.99.
In the city, the population is spread by 19.8% under the age of 18, 30.6% from 18 to 24, 21.3% from 25 to 44, 16.5% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% years or more. The average age is 25 years. For every 100 females, there are 96.7 males. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 93.2 men.
The average income for households in the city is $ 40,344, and the average income for families is $ 51,157. Men have an average income of $ 33,618 compared to $ 25,789 for women. The per capita income for the city is $ 16,634. Approximately 4.2% of families and 11.8% of the population are below the poverty line, including 7.3% of those under the age of 18 and 10.9% of those aged 65 years or older.
History
St. Peter was founded in 1853 by Captain William Bigelow Dodd, who claims 150 acres (0.61 km 2 ) to the north of what is now Broadway Avenue. He named the Rock Bend new settlement due to the rock formations at the bend of the Minnesota River. The site of the city was laid out and surveyed in 1854 by Daniel L. Turpin. In 1855, a group of businessmen St. Paul who was interested in promoting the city formed the Saint Peter Company, and the city was renamed St. Peter. The president of the company is Willis A. Gorman, Governor of Minnesota Region. Many streets in St. Peter are named after the streets of New York City: Park Row, Chatham, Broadway, Nassau, and Union, for example. Captain Dodd is from Bloomfield, New Jersey. His second wife, Harriett Newell Jones, who came from Cabot, Vermont, lived in New York at their wedding at Holy Communion Church in New York City, which helped fund the church at St. Peter who shares the same name.
In 1857, attempts were made to move the Capital of Minnesota Region from St. Paul to St Peter. Governor Gorman owns land where sponsors of the bill want to build a new Parliament building, and at one point have been heard saying, "If the House of Representatives remains in Saint Paul, this area is worth millions, and I have nothing." At that time, Saint Peter - a city in the central region of the region - is seen as more accessible to distant territorial legislators than St. Paul, located in the easternmost part of the area, on the eastern edge of the Mississippi River. A bill is passed in both houses of the Territorial Legislature and awaits the signature of Governor Gorman. Chairman of the Board's Registered Committee on Admission, Joseph J. Rolette of Pembina, took the bill and hid in a hotel in St. Louis. Paul, drinking and playing cards with some friends when City Police did not work for him, until the end of the legislative session, too late for the bill to be signed. Remette came into the room only when the session ended. Today, St. Paul is the second largest city in the state (second only to neighboring Minneapolis), while St Peter is a relatively small rural town.
In 1851, the Traverse des Sioux Treaty was signed between Sioux (Dakota) and the US Government just a mile (1.6 km) north of St. Louis. Peter. The Nicollet County Historical Society - The Historical Site Center is located near the signing of the agreement. However, the promises of the treaty were not kept. Dakota became angry and the 1862 Dakota War began in Cottonwood County. In August 1862, Dakota attacked the German New Ulm settlement. A volunteer company from St. Peter, led by Captain William B. Dodd, the founder of St. Peter, go to the New Ulm defense. Captain Dodd was assassinated on August 23, 1862, and buried briefly in New Ulm. On November 11, 1862, Captain Dodd was buried with high military honor in St. Peter on the basis of the Church of Holy Communion, Episcopal, on the land he donated to the church. Captain Dodd, his wife Harriet and two children were buried behind a stone church built in 1869-70 at 118 North Minnesota Avenue.
In 1866, Legislature founded the first "Minnesota Asylum for the Insane" at St. Peter. He later became known as St. Hospital. Peter State, and is now called the St. Joseph Regional Treatment Center. Peter.
On July 1, 1892, Sontag Brothers, John Sontag and George Contant, and their colleague Chris Evans tried to rob a train between St. Peter and Kasota along the Minnesota River. The bandits had gained nothing during this meeting, but their activities were under the detection of Pinkerton's detective, and both were arrested in June 1893 in the so-called Battle of Corral Stone in California.
Governor
Saint Peter is known as the home of five Governors:
- Territorial
- Willis Arnold Gorman (1853-1857)
- Country
- Henry Adoniram Swift (1863-1864)
- Horace Austin (1870-1874)
- Andrew Ryan McGill (1887-1889)
- John Albert Johnson (1905-1909)
The most famous of these five governors, John Albert Johnson, was born in St. John. Peter to Swedish-born parents on July 28, 1861. Due to family circumstances, he offered to help his mother raise a family. He left school at a young age and held various jobs. In 1887, he was hired as editor of St. Peter Herald, local newspaper. In 1899, he was elected to the State Senate, and served until 1903. In 1904, he was elected Governor of the 16th Minnesota. He was re-elected in 1906 and 1908. In 1912, he was considered a possible candidate for the President of the United States, but died as a result of an operation for intestinal adhesion in Rochester, Minnesota on 21 September 1909. William James Mayo and Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, who came from Le Sueur, nine miles (14 km) north of St. James. Peter and friendly with the governor, performed the operation. After lying on State in the Capitol Minnesota rotunda, his body was taken to St. Peter for burial. The cemetery, held at the Church of the Presbyterian Union, is the largest in St. Petersburg. Peter, and he was buried near his parents at Greenhill Cemetery. He survived by his wife, Elinore "Nora" Preston Johnson.
Mayor
Tornado
On March 29, 1998, a tornado hit St. Peter, killed eight-year-old Dustin Schneider, injured dozens more, and damaged many residential, commercial, and municipal civil buildings. A total of 156 single-family homes and 51 apartment units were destroyed by tornadoes. A total of 362 houses and apartments suffered serious damage and 1,383 houses or apartments suffered minor damage. The three trailer parks of the city were largely spared no crashed car houses and only two were badly damaged. Big losses include Old Central School, St. Peter Arts and Heritage Center, St. Catholic Church Peter, The Evangelical Lutheran Church St. Peter, and Johnson Hall at Gustavus Adolphus College.
Church
- Bethany Alliance Church (Missionary & Christian Alliance) Established in 1961, Present church built in 1965, the Church renamed Living Truth Fellowship in 2015.
- Calvary Baptist Church Established in 1963, the Present Church was built in 1977
- St. Peter (Roman Catholic) Established in 1856, the present church was built in 2001
- The Church of Holy Communion (Episcopal) Established in 1854 The present church was built in 1869-1870
- First Lutheran Church (ELCA) Founded in 1857 Present church was built in 1965
- Good Samaritan United Methodist Church Founded in 2010, no church is currently
- Sunrise Assembly of God Established in 1934, present church built in 1988
- St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church (WELS) Founded in 1867, Attend church built in 1999
- The River Life of the Lutheran Church (LCMS) Founded in 2013 by our Savior Mankato Lutheran Church, has been a member of the Lutheran-Missouri Church Synod since 2016.
- Trinity Lutheran Church (ELCA) Founded in 1892, Attend church built in 1988
- Union Presbyterian Church Founded in 1869 as a result of the union of two congregations, the First Free Presbyterian Church of Traverse des Sioux Founded in 1853, and First Presbyterian Church St. Peter Founded in 1857. The church is now built in 1871.
Education
St. Peter is the home of Gustavus Adolphus College, a Lutheran-affiliated private liberal arts college established in 1862. High school is St. Peter. There are two parish schools in St. Petersburg. Peter: John Ireland Catholic School (K-6), associated with St. John's Church Peter, and St. The Peter Evangelical Lutheran School (K-8), which together with the church is associated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Veritas et Lux Preparatory School is a non-denominational private school (K-12).
The first class that graduated from St. Peter High School is a class of 1880. The first Superintendent from St. Petersburg. Peter Public Schools is Andrew Ryan McGill who served from 1865 to 1868, he served as the 10th Governor of Minnesota from 1887 to 1889.
American scholarship based in St Peter.
Health Care
Community health care is provided by St. Community Hospital Peter. In 2009 St. John's Community Hospital Peter was renamed to River's Edge Hospital. In the same year the construction of new clinics started side by side with the hospital. Now there's River's Edge Clinic and St. Peter Community Clinic, which is part of Mayo's Health System.
Saint Peter is home to the Minnesota Peace Hospital where people are state-conscious and mentally ill are committed.
Benedictine Health Care Center, formerly known as St. John's Public Health Center. Peter is part of the River's Edge Hospital complex. Near Pheasants Ridge Hospital is a life assisted facility that has a section for patients suffering from memory loss due to Alzheimer Disease and Dementia. Other health care facilities in St. Petersburg Peter included Grandview Good Samaritan Center on Sunrise Drive.
River Valley Birth Center opened in St. Louis. Peter in the summer of 2014. It is the first free-standing birth center in the region.
Crime
Infrastructure
Transportation
The following route is located within the city of St. Peter.
- AS Highway 169
- Minnesota State Highway 22
- Minnesota State Highway 99
Famous people
- Horace Austin - 6th Minnesota Governor
- Henry N. Benson - Minnesota Attorney General
- Eugene Saint Julien Cox - mayor of St. Peter, state legislator, district court judge
- Anne Martell Denver - wife of singer John Denver
- Olive Fremstad - opera singer at the Metropolitan Opera
- Willis Arnold Gorman - Minnesota's Second Governor of Minnesota
- Camilla Hall - member of the Symbionese Liberation Army
- James M. Hinds, the first congressman member killed in the office
- Gideon S. Ives - lieutenant governor of Minnesota, mayor of St. Peter
- John Albert Johnson - 16th Minnesota Governor, presidential candidate, newspaper editor
- Andrew Ryan McGill - 10th Minnesota governor, newspaper editor, state senator
- James M. McPherson - Civil War historian and author
- Steve Neils - soccer player for St. Louis Cardinals
- Milt Nielsen - baseball player for Indian Cleveland
- Allen Quist - former state representative and governor's candidate
- Benjamin H. Randall - politician
- Rick Rude - professional wrestler
- Myer Skoog - the inventor of the jump shot
- Henry A. Swift - 3rd Governor of Minnesota, Minnesota Governor's lieutenant, state senator
- John H. Tolan - politician and lawyer
- Earl Witte - soccer player for Green Bay Packers
Also see
- St. Peter Sandstone
- Linnaeus Arboretum, on campus Gustavus Adolphus College
Reference
External links
- St. Peter, the Official Website of the Minnesota State Website
- St. Official Website of Peter Public Schools
- Ã, Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "St Peter". EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica . 24 (edition 11). Cambridge University Press. p.Ã, 37.
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