La Crescent, Minnesota
Houston County Winona County
27-33866
La Crescent is a city in Houston County, Minnesota, United States. The population of the town in 2000 was 4923rd A small part of the municipal area extends into neighboring Winona County.
La Crescent contributes for its many apple orchards nicknamed the " Apple Capital of Minnesota ". The place forms a common Hokah School District.
Geography
The village lies on the banks of the Mississippi River, across from La Crosse, Wisconsin. The place is surrounded by hills that provide a view of the river.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 8.7 km ², of which 7.8 km ² of land and 0.9 km ² ( = 9.85% ) consist of waters.
Demography
At the time of the census of 2000, there were 4923 La Crescent people. The population density was 631.5 people per km ². There were 2014 housing units at an average 258.3 per km ². The people of La Crescent consisted of 97.60 % White, 0.43 % African American, 0.08 % Native American, 0.87 % Asian, 0.08 % reported from other races, and 0.93 % from two or more races. 0.73 % of the population to be Hispanic or Latino of any race.
The residents of La Crescent distributed to 1940 households out of which 35.0% were living in children under 18 years. 59.1 % married couples living together, 8.8 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.5 % were non-families. 26.0 % of households were made up of individuals and someone lived in 11.3 % of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size is 3.02.
The city population was spread out with 27.3 % under the, 7.1 % 18 -24- year-old, 28.6 % 25 -44- year-old, 21.2% 45-64 year olds and 15.8 % under the age of 65 years or more. The average age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 92.9 males. In the over -18s accounted for 100 women 89.1 males.
The median household income in La Crescent was 45 433 U.S. dollars, and the median family income reached the level of 54 708 U.S. dollars. The average income of men was 40 316 U.S. dollars, compared to 24,308 U.S. dollars for women. The per capita income in La Crescent was 21 361 U.S. dollars. 3.9 % of the population and 0.8 % of families had affected an income below the poverty line, including 1.9 % of minors and 12.8 % of those age 65 or over.
History
The surroundings of La Crescent has been inhabited since thousands of years. Before the arrival of white settlers here were the Dakota and Winnebago resident.
After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was Nathan Boone, the youngest son of Daniel Boone, among the surveyors who explored the area. The Indians living there were expelled in the 1840s in order to provide more room for white settlement.
La Crescent was founded in 1851 by Peter Cameron and originally bore the name Cameron. Cameron tried to dig a canal to route the course of the Mississippi River so that he that haunted on the other side of the river located in Wisconsin La Crosse and was closer to the town he founded. However, he died in 1857 about ten weeks before the planned completion of the canal, which was then not completed. The remains of the channel are visible on aerial photographs today.
After the death of Cameron's place by William Harvey and Gillet, which cleared the present settlement center was renamed " Manton ". Shortly thereafter, some unscrupulous Kentucky Land Company changed the name to La Crescent. They wanted a more romantic -sounding name of the city in order to better attract the settlers and came up with the name because the river ( crescent in English ) around the city a bow in the form of a half moon makes. La Crescent was incorporated in 1857.
John S. Harris arrived in 1856 in La Crescent and the city got its face as the center of apple growing. Despite the adoption of almost all contemporaries that apples in Minnesota can not flourish, planted his first apple trees Harris 1857 and made attempts until he had found trees that were tough enough to survive the harsh winters of the Midwest. He planted thousands of apple trees and tried hundreds of varieties, of which half were complete losses. Harris was a founding member of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society. Since 1947, the city celebrates his legacy with an annual Apple Festival. In 2002, the city has ( German: Apple Capital of Minnesota ) the title " Apple Capital of Minnesota " to register as a trademark.
The acreage is virtually unchanged since the 1940s, although the number of apple growers now dropped to a quarter of the former state. Eighty percent of the production is sold in Minnesota, the rest goes in the surrounding states and Canada.