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Forest Lake began as a stop on the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad. The first train reached Forest Lake on December 23, 1868. The lake was so named for the abundant timber that lines its shores. [8] Forest Lake Township was organized on March 11, 1874. The first one-room school was built that year at the former location of city hall (220 N. Lake ...
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The first church was a log structure in 1872. It was known as the church of St. Wenceslas. Then a new church was built in the 1880s and was a frame structure known as St. Casimir's Church. The old log church was converted into classrooms. A new school building was built in 1909 and is present today. St. Casimir's church was destroyed by fire in ...
It was in this office that plans were drawn up for the Minnesota Territory, and it became the temporary territorial headquarters in May 1840, when Governor Alexander Ramsey was a guest of Sibley. [2] When General Sibley moved to 417 Woodward Street, [3] St. Paul in 1862, he sold his home to St. Peter's Catholic Parish. The Catholic Sisters used ...
Bird's Eye view, St. Peter, Minnesota, 1870. St. Peter was founded in 1853 by Captain William Bigelow Dodd, who claimed 150 acres (0.61 km 2) north of what is now Broadway Avenue. He named the new settlement Rock Bend because of the rock formation at the bend of the Minnesota River. Daniel L. Turpin platted and surveyed the town site in 1854.
St. Peter's Catholic Church is a historic church in Gentilly Township, Minnesota, United States. The church, built from 1914 to 1915, and the adjacent 1902 rectory were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
St. Peter's Catholic Church in Mendota Heights [a] is the oldest church in continuous use in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Established as a community in 1840, a log church was built in 1842, and the still-standing historic church was constructed in 1853.
Forest Lake High School was shown by the Minnesota Report Card to have proficiency in math at 60.3%, reading at 61.3% and science at 58.5%. The graduation rate is 84.8%. [2] Forest Lake High School was named one of the top 1,500 high schools in the country by Newsweek Magazine in 2013. [3]