What is the history of St. Peter, Minnesota?
by AB-Wikibot on April 19th, 2007 Saint Peter was founded in 1853 by Captain William Bigelow Dodd, who claimed 150 acres 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. The town site was platted and surveyed in 1854 by Daniel L. Turpin. In 1855 a group of St. Paul businessmen became interested in promoting the town formed the Saint Peter Company, the town was renamed St. Peter. The president of the Company was Willis GormanWillis A. Gorman, Territorial Governor of Minnesota. In 1857 an attempt was made to move the capital from St. Paul to St. Peter. graft (politics)Gov. Gorman owned the land on which the bill’s sponsors wanted to build the new capitol building, and at one point had been heard saying, “If the capitol remains in Saint Paul, the territory is worth millions and I have nothing.” At the time, St. Peter – a city in the central region of the territory – was seen as more accessible to
