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3434
Planning Files - Type
Comprehensive Plan Amendment
Project Name
2002/3 Comprehensive Plan
Applicant
City of Roseville
Status
Approved
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2002/3 Comprehensive Plan
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<br />HISTORY OF THE CITY OF ROSEVILLE <br /> <br />"Roseville: The Double Boom Town" <br /> <br />(Source: Lanegran, David A., Marcotte, Robert; (May 1998) <br />1-35W Corridor Coalition Phase I Report) <br /> <br />Unlike the communities to its north, Rose Township attracted the attention of developers and <br />real estate speculators because of its proximity to the two early centers of urbanization, St. Paul <br />and St. Anthony, and the main route between them. By the last decade of the nineteenth <br />century, the lower half of the township was incorporated into St. Paul and the westernmost six <br />sections had been ceded to Hennepin County. In the 1840s, small farmers were attracted to flat <br />and moderately fertile soils in the southern sections. After the Territory of Minnesota was <br />organized, the flow of farmers increased and a few speculators laid out town lots. The sections <br />closest to St. Paul, the Como Lake area, Sarah's Outlots and the Cottage Homes area (platted <br />1855) south of McCarron's Lake were developed first. In 1856 a village named Roseville was <br />platted at what is now the intersection of University and Snelling Avenues. In 1857 a Saint <br />Paul Park addition was platted by Charles Miller in the northern area just east of Lake <br />Josephine. The County Poor Farm was established two miles to the north of the Village on land <br />that is now the State Fair grounds. Elsewhere, small parcels were taken up by farmers <br />intending to profit from their access to the population centers and city streets. Soon farmers <br />began to specialize in dairying, produce or hog production. But the great financial panics of <br />the late 1850s brought the rampant speculation to a halt as the population of St. Paul <br />underwent a dramatic decrease. <br /> <br />Soldiers returning from the Civil War found many opportunities in this part of Ramsey <br />County. The sections north of McCarron's Lake were subdivided into lakeshore lots and urban <br />areas. Optimistic businessmen platted other subdivisions in the area along main avenues <br />leading north from St. Paul. There is also a pattern of rather small agricultural parcels of about <br />15 acres that were developed by market gardeners, while the lake shores attracted the city's <br />upper class. One of the City's leading land speculators, Alexander Ramsey, in whose honor the <br />county was named, held 160 acres on the township's eastern border that once belonged to E. <br />Edgerton, another of the city's early land developers. In 1860 the population was 499; by 1880 <br />it had grown to 877. <br /> <br />After the turn of the century the rate of suburbanization slowed down. In Rose Township, <br />many farmers concentrated on specialized products like milk that had to be consumed fresh. <br />Most of the farmers sold their milk door to door along specific routes as well as to local <br />creameries. There were some large show farms such as J. M. Hackney's Arden Dairy that <br />produced both milk for sale and purebred livestock for farmers wishing to improve their herds. <br />Eventually there were 33 dairy farms in the area north of Larpenteur. Other farmers wishing to <br />take advantage of their nearness to the markets specialized in growing vegetables for sale in the <br />city markets. In addition, some farmers specialized in growing pigs, fattened by eating <br />garbage. This type of farming resulted from the need to dispose of the wet garbage produced <br /> <br />Roseville Comprehensive Plan - 2002 Update <br /> <br />The Land and its People - Page 90nO <br />
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