Dassel (Minnesota)
Meeker County
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Dassel is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Meeker County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Dassel had 1469 inhabitants.
Geography
By Dassel leads U.S. Highway 12, wherein the location is halfway between the westerly Darwin and the eastern Cokato. Dassel has a total area of 4.1 km ², of which about 6 % is water surface. The place is surrounded by flat hills and situated on a lake.
History
The place was middle of the 19th century cottages that had been built by settlers from neighboring states and from Sweden. He was named in 1869 after emigrated from Germany railway official Bernhard Dassel, as an extended from St. Paul to the west railway line reached the place. After the opening of Dasselstraße experienced a boom to the small town.
Infrastructure
The elementary school and the whole school of Dassel were awarded 2004 Excellence schools of Minnesota. The village has a public library. The fire department is organized as a volunteer fire department. It was founded in 1881.
Culture and sights
Dassel has three parks. In the Ballpark is held annually on Labor Day, a hard place.
In the village there are Protestant and Free Church parishes and a Catholic church.
The force exerted in Dassel sports include mountain biking, horseback riding and cross-country skiing.
In the old town on the railway line of the bandstand from the time of the local establishment has been restored.
The local museum is housed next to the community hall. The influence of the railroad on the development of the city is shown in the railway museum in which a model of the steam locomotive William Crooks is to see that the place in 1869 for the first time drove off.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places is the storage building of the former company "Universal Laboratories ". The head of this company, a former teacher named Peel, middle of the 1930s was noticed that the farmers in the area destroyed their rye, when he was infested with ergot. Medical applications have already been known for the ergot alkaloids formed thereby. To promote this, he left in 1937 to build the building. The deal was facilitated by the fact that the previous supplier failed, namely Russia because of the Russian Revolution and Spain because of the Spanish Civil War. With the support of clients such as Eli Lilly and Company, the Company during the Second World War the most important supplier in the USA. The company ceased to operate 1975. The building stood empty until the late 1990s and is now the seat of the Regional Historical Society.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Dassel 1469 people in 572 households. The population density was 358.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 572 households lived statistically 2.46 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 95.4 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 1.0 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian and 1.0 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
27.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 53.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.9 percent were 65 years or older. 00000000000 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 39,490. The per capita income was $ 19,706. 12.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.