Red Wing (Minnesota)
Goodhue County
27-53620
Red Wing is a city and county seat of Goodhue County in the east of the U.S. State of Minnesota on the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Wisconsin. Red Wing had 16,459 inhabitants in the census in 2010.
The city is located in the southeast of the metropolitan area of Minneapolis -Saint Paul.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has Red Wing was added in 2008 to its list of the prominent destinations. Red Wing was added to the list due to its " impressive architecture and enviable natural environment." Only twelve places to be considered annually by the Board. The east end of the Cannon Valley Trail is located in Red Wing. In the neighborhood is the Prairie Iceland Indian Reservation.
Geography and transport
Red Wing is located in Eastern Minnesota on the west bank of the upper Mississippi River, which forms the border with Wisconsin. In Red Wing is the mouth of the Cannon River in Mississippi. Red Wing is located at the northern edge of a karst landscape, which is called the Driftless Area.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 107.1 km ², of which 91.7 km ² of land and 15.5 km ² omitted ( = 14.43 %) to water.
Red Wing is located at the southeast of the Twin Cities Mississippi River and part of the extended metropolitan region of Minneapolis -St. Paul -St. Cloud ( Combined Statistical Area). Red Wings geographical coordinates are 44 ° 34 'N, 92 ° 32' W44.565 - 92.536666666667.
U.S. Highway 61, which forms the Minnesota section of the Great River Road leads here, parallel to the Mississippi by Red Wing. The highway meets in the city center on U.S. Highway 63, which crosses the Red Wing Bridge to Hager City on the side of the river in Wisconsin and thence in an easterly direction. By Red Wing also lead the Minnesota State Routes 19 and 58 The Wisconsin State Route 35 runs along the opposite riverbank.
The Empire Builder, The daily Amtrak long-distance train between Chicago and Seattle via Portland, stops in Red Wing.
History
At the beginning of the 1850s settlers came with steamboats up the Mississippi River, which docked in Red Wing. The aim of these settlers were the fruitful field areas in Goodhue County. They are usually built on wheat. Before the railways developed country, which produces Goodhue County more than any other wheat County in the USA. 1873 Red Wing led the ranking with the highest wheat envelope. The warehouses at the Port of Red Wing had a capacity of more than one million bushels of wheat. After the railway to the south of Minnesota joined with Minneapolis and St Anthony, where the largest flour mills emerged, the Port of Red Wing lost its meaning. In the second half of the 20th century, the United States Army Corps of Engineers built along the river locks and dams to raise the water level of the river. This ship traffic increased with bulk goods such as grain and coal on the river again, the port itself but could not regain its former position.
The early settlers built mills and smaller craft, similar to those in New England, where many of them came from. Immigrants from Germany, Ireland and Sweden brought early industrial enterprises to Red Wing, the tan on, shoe production, the manufacture of agricultural implements, bricks, barrels, boats, furniture, ceramics, and specialized buttons. It created small breweries and sawmills. Masons and hosts offered their services. During this time, the Saint James Hotel was built.
1854 Hamline University was founded in Red. It was the first higher education institution in Minnesota, which was however closed in 1869 as a result of the Civil War because of low student numbers and was later re-opened in Saint Paul.
In Red Wing, there was also the Gustavus Adolphus College, a private school of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ). The college was founded in 1862 by Eric Norelius and moved in 1863 to East Union before it found its place in St. Peter in 1876.
The brick and ceramics industry Red Wings developed at the northwest end of the city, near the Hay Creek. The raw material came from near Goodhue at the headwaters of Hay Creeks. A branch line was built to transport the clay to Red Wing. The factory buildings are still visible, unlike the 1937 discontinued railway line.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Red Wing 16,459 people in 7090 households. The population density was 179.5 inhabitants per square kilometer.
The racial the population was composed of 91.5 percent white, 1.9 percent African American, 2.2 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 2.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
In the 7090 households lived statistically 2.26 per person.
22.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.2 percent were 65 years or older. 51.4 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 49,810. The per capita income was $ 26,461. 10.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Reid Cashman, hockey player
- Clifford E. Charlesworth, NASA flight director during the Apollo program (1931-1991)
- Frances Densmore, Ethnologist and ethnomusicologist (1867-1957)
- Patrick Flueger, film actor and musician