Princeton (Minnesota)
Mille Lacs County Sherburne County
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Princeton is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Mille Lacs and Sherburne County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Princeton had 4698 inhabitants.
Geography
Princeton is located in northeastern Minnesota's Center at the Rum River, a left tributary of the upper Mississippi. The geographical coordinates are 45 ° 34'12 " north latitude and 93 ° 34'54 " west longitude. The city covers 13.42 square kilometers, of which 0.57 square kilometers is water area.
Towns nearby Princeton are Pease (17 km north-northwest ) and Zimmerman (14,8 km to the south).
The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (81 km south-southeast ), Minnesota's capital city of Saint Paul (95 km in the same direction), Duluth Lake Superior (209 km northeast), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (407 km southwest), Fargo, North Dakota (324 km north-west ) and Eau Claire, Wisconsin (224 km southeast).
Traffic
U.S. Highway 169 runs north -south direction than western ring road to the center of Princeton. Located northwest of the center of U.S. 169 is crossed by the Minnesota State Route 95. All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In the south-western area located with the Princeton Municipal Airport is a small regional airport. The nearest international airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (104 km south-southeast ).
History
1847 White first came to the area around the present town of Princeton and discovered extensive pine forests. Shortly thereafter, the extraction of timber and its processing began.
1849 the first building was erected on the present area, which served as a resting place. 1854 another building was built and became the home of A. B. Damon, the first permanent settlers of the place.
In 1855 the Princeton was created schedule as a settlement. It was named after entrepreneur John S. Prince. 1856 a sawmill and a blacksmith shop was built and opened a post office. In the same year a hotel happened.
1958, the ten southern townships of today's Mille Lacs County, where Princeton was, as Monroe County known. As today's Mille Lacs County was formed in 1860, the seat of administration came to Princeton, where he remained until 1920.
1969, a second hotel was built. In 1870 there were in Princeton three retailers, two large hotels, two steam-powered sawmill, a flour mill, a law firm, two churches, a wheelwright, four blacksmiths, two shoemakers workshops, two carpenters and the only post office in the area. 1873 appeared with the Princeton Appeal the first newspaper in Princeton.
1877 Princeton was separated from the surrounding Township and incorporated as a Village of Princeton.
In 1886, Princeton was connected to the railway network. The route of the Great Northern Railway ran from the Tin Cities to Duluth on Lake Superior.
By 1890 the city had become next to the previously dominant timber industry also became a center of agriculture. In particular, wheat and potatoes and their processing played an increasing role in Princeton and its surroundings.
After 1889 Princeton became one of the largest brick Locations Minnesota.
1908 a cooperative operated dairy was opened. From about 1920 the dairy industry became the main industry of the city and retained this role until the late 1970s.
In the 1980s, several industrial manufacturers settled. For example, furniture, metal and printing industries as well as an alcohol distillery and various trucking companies moved on.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Princeton 4698 people in 1926 households. The population density was 366 people per square kilometer. In the 1926 households lived statistically 2.35 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.5 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.4 percent were 65 years or older. 53.3 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 38,741. The per capita income was $ 20,123. 13.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Sons and daughters
- Rod Grams (1948-2013), politician, television presenter and entrepreneur
- Bob Backlund ( born 1950 ), wrestler