Minnesota, Stearns County, St. Cloud
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has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
and St. Cloud Heritage
Preservation Commission
(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
and St. Cloud Heritage
Preservation Commission
(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
These structures were built in 1917. Early businesses included a hardware store, shoe store and bakery. For a short time it housed a three lane bowling alley. The building was also once a grocery store. In 1930, City Hall moved into the north half of the building at this location. City Hall remained here until the offices were moved across the street in 1945.
Stafford Training School, later known as H. H. Poole School, was constructed in 1939 by
the Public Works Administration after African American parents raised money to buy the
land. During the segregation era, this was the only school in Stafford County offering
black students an education beyond seventh grade. After an earlier attempt failed, two
young students from this school, Doretha and Cynthia Montague, successfully entered the
all-white Stafford Elementary School on 5 Sept. 1961, seven years after the Supreme
Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision ruled school segregation unconstitutional.
Thereafter school systems in the Fredericksburg region desegregated.
Throughout the summer of 1864 Union General Ulysses S. Grant made several unsuccessful assaults against the Confederate defenses around Richmond and Petersburg. Then, in the fall of 1864, the Union won decisive victories on other fronts of the war. Encouraged, Grant ordered another wave of assaults against Petersburg and Richmond.
The first Table Rock House stood 150 yards north of here. Erected in the year 1853, it occupied a site opposite the historical landmark of Table Rock, an overhanging limestone ledge which fell into the Niagara Gorge in the year 1850.
Union General Ulysses S. Grant pursued a strategy of two-pronged attacks on Petersburg and the Confederate capital at Richmond. Grant first attacked Lee's positions around Richmond and struck again south of Petersburg. By the end of Grant's fourth offensive, Lee's supply lines had been bent but not broken.
With the fall of Confederate at Five Forks on April 1, 1865, Confederate general Robert E. Lee's defense of Petersburg and Richmond had been lost. On April 2, Union General Ulysses S. Grant ordered a general assault against the Petersburg lines and broke through Lee's Defenses west of the city. Only a stand by Confederate troops here at Fort Gregg prevented union forces from entering the city that night. After dark, Lee ordered the evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond. Though Grant captured the capital of the Confederacy on April 3, he would not rest until Lee's army had surrendered.
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The Towne Theatre was constructed of unreinforced brick in 1918. The single-screen theater was used to show silent movies and the stage area was used for vaudeville. Mary Pickford performed here. The theater was closed due to extensive damage from the 1994 earthquake. The city purchased the theater and used grants from the State Historical Preservation Office to rebuild the structure. Restoration cost nearly $1 million to complete.
Location of prominent historical characters at the ground breaking ceremony
