Saint Paul, Minnesota

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Twin Cities (allthetropes.org) There are many twin cities - Buda and Pest, El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, Ottawa and Gatineau, and so on - but the one that most Americans think of when they hear the phrase “Twin Cities” is Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Twin Cities in Minnesota. Famous for the Mall of America (in one of the suburbs).

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Trout Brook

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creek

Phalen Creek

early inhabitants

Burial mounds in present-day Indian Mounds Park suggest the area was inhabited by the Hopewell Native Americans about 2,000 years ago.

early settler

Edward Phelan

eastbound on U.S. Route 12

Maplewood, Minnesota

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In 1850, a group of families ventured from St. Paul along an Indian trail that is now Hazelwood Street. They were the Bells, Caseys, Conlins, and Vincents. At today’s County Road C, they turned to the east and began to build their log cabins. The sound of their axes alerted the Dakota who had a hunting camp nearby and thought the land was still theirs. The Dakota asked them to leave and the newcomers quickly retraced their steps.

lake

Lake Phalen

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Ramsey County from the Digitized State of Minnesota Plat Book – 1916

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St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Minnesota’s Urban Origins (MNopedia) Only outsiders and strangers—and those who name baseball teams—would call St. Paul and Minneapolis “twins.” The rest of us call them “The Cities,” recognizing that though they sit right next to each other and on the same river, they pull in decidedly different directions.

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Paul the Apostle

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St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota. This place was started in 1838 and named in 1841. It was named from a log church which was built for Father M. Galtier, an early Jesuit missionary. The church was named for “The Apostle of the Gentiles.” The first house was built here in 1838. The place was made a village in 1849 and a city in 1854.

northbound on U.S. Route 61

Maplewood, Minnesota

official website

https://www.stpaul.gov/

OpenStreetMap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/136612

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Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. James Madison, Political Observations (20 April 1795)

slavery

Despite the absence of legal slavery in Minnesota, Army officers were permitted to bring their enslaved individuals into the region.

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Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28848

Wikimedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Saint_Paul,_Minnesota

Wikipedia

Saint Paul, Minnesota (Wikipedia) Saint Paul (often abbreviated to St. Paul) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Ramsey County. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 311,527, making it Minnesota’s second-most populous city and the 69th-most populous in the United States. Saint Paul and neighboring Minneapolis form the core of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, the third most populous in the Midwest with around 3.7 million residents.