St Paul, Minnesota, USA
1895 - Saint Paul

Saint Paul, a city and port of entry, the capital of Minnesota, and the seat of justice for Ramsey co., is situated on the Mississippi River, about 2100 miles from its mouth, 10 miles E. of Minneapolis, and 409 miles by rail W.N.W. of Chicago. Lat. 44° 52'46" N, ; lon. 93° 5' W. It is the second city of the state in population, and is the head of navigation for steamboats. The greater part of the city is built on a plateau, or terrace, which is 70 feet higher than the river and is partly surrounded by an amphitheatre of hills. St. Paul contains a state-house, a city all, a fine granite building erected by the United States for the custom-house and post-office, 138 churches representing many denominations, a number of theatres, public libraries, and national banks, the state reform school, an academy of natural sciences, a high school, and several academies, orphan asylums, and hospitals. Five daily and 25 weekly newspapers are published here. St. Paul is sup plied with good water derived from a fine lake lying 3 miles from the city. It is a terminus of two branches of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, and of three divisions of the Great Northern Railroad. Entering the city are also railroads named the St. Paul & Duluth, the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, the Chicago & Northwestern, the Wisconsin Central, and others. The average duration of the season of navigation is about 7 months. St. Paul has an excellent public-school system, embracing a fine high school and about 45 other school buildings. About 470 teachers are employed under a superintendent and board of education. The pupils number nearly 20,000. The city has manufactures of machinery, farming-implements, furniture, carriages, boots, shoes, sash, blinds, &c., with an invested capital, in 1890, as given in the census, of $21,438,588, and a product valued at $31,068,200. Here are quarries of fine limestone. A bridge over the river connects the city proper with West St. Paul, a suburb which was ceded to St. Paul in 1874. Pop. in 1860, 10,401; in 1870, 20,030; in 1875, 36,383; in 1880, 41,473; in 1890, 133,156.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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