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Minnesota was organized as a territory in 1849. The St. Cloud area
had been opened to legal ownership by non-Native Americans
following treaty negotiations with the Winnebago tribe in 1851 and
1852.
St. Cloud was a waystation on the Middle and Woods branches of the
Red River Trails between the Canadian border at Pembina and St.
Paul. The cart trains often consisted of hundreds of ox carts; the
carters would camp west of the city and cross the Mississippi in
St. Cloud or in Sauk Rapids, just to the north.
The City of St. Cloud was incorporated in 1856. It developed from
three distinct settlements, known as Upper Town, Middle Town, and
Lower Town, that were established beginning in 1853. The remnants
of the deep ravines that separated the three are still visible
today. Middle Town was settled primarily by Catholic
German-Americans, who were attracted to the region by Father
Francis Xavier Pierz. Lower Town was founded by settlers from New
England and the mid-Atlantic states. Upper Town, or Arcadia, was
plotted by General Sylvanus Lowry, a slave-holding Southerner from
Kentucky. Lowry was St. Cloud's first mayor, serving only one year.
Lowry battled Abolitionist newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm. At
one point Swisshelm's newspaper office was broken into and the
press thrown into the Mississippi River. St. Cloud's experience
with slavery was brief. Nearly all of the Southerners left the St.
Cloud area when the Civil War broke out. Lowry died soon after in
1865.
Stephen Miller served a two-year term as Minnesota governor
beginning in 1864, the only citizen of St. Cloud to hold the
office. Miller was a "Pennsylvania German businessman", lawyer,
writer, active abolitionist, and personal friend of Minnesota
Governor Ramsey. He was on the state's Republican electoral ticket
with Abraham Lincoln in 1860. With no previous military experience,
Miller enlisted as a private in the Minnesota's First Regiment of
Volunteers, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel and eventually
"Brigadier General of Volunteers".After fighting at Bull Run and in
eight other battles, Miller became ill and later transferred to
another unit, missing the regiment's famous charge at Gettysburg.
His son Wesley, who had enlisted with his father, was killed in the
battle. While in military service, Miller also served as commander
of Mankato's Camp Lincoln, where 38 Dakota men were executed for
their role in the Dakota War of 1862. Although he never attended
college, as governor Miller supported higher education, including
the state "Normal" schools, one of which later became St. Cloud
State University. In his final legislative address as governor, he
made a strong but unsuccessful argument for a black suffrage
amendment to the state constitution.
St. Cloud was named after Saint-Cloud, the Paris suburb, by John
Wilson, a Maine native with French Huguenot ancestry. Wilson later
said that his decision came from his interest in Napoleon, whose
favorite palace was located in Saint-Cloud.
Steamboats once docked at St. Cloud, although river levels were not
reliable. Granite quarries have operated in the area since the
1880s, giving St. Cloud its nickname:
"The
Granite City."
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