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We would like to provide the residents of  Sauk Rapids  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Sauk Rapids Home page. The Sauk Rapids Home page provides as much information as possible on Sauk Rapids. Knowing Sauk Rapids’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Sauk Rapids’s Home page, you will also find Sauk Rapids’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Sauk Rapids has a population of 13926. 48.3% of Sauk Rapids’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.7 are female. 46.2% of Sauk Rapids is married and 61.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $181,594, and the average rent is $794. Household median income in Sauk Rapids is $53,511, and the individual median income is $33,487. Sauk Rapids’s Ethnic is the following: White(91.8%), Hispanic(3.9%), Multiple(3.6%), Other(2.4%), Asian(1.4%), Black(0.6%), Native(0.2%).


Sauk Rapids was originally little more than a forest of oak, maple and basswood trees along the Mississippi River until the first home was constructed there in 1851, a large mansion named Lynden Terrace erected by W.H. Wood. Soon other settlers followed and the town was named Sauk Rapids after the rapids just below the Sauk River's mouth on the Mississippi.


The new settlement was along the Red River Trails.Soon a general store was built, then a hotel, and a large jail. The first settlers organized a church that was soon followed by a Methodist, an Episcopalian and a Lutheran church. The first paper outside of St. Paul was the Sauk Rapids Frontiersman, founded in 1854.A flour mill was erected in 1875, but was destroyed in 1886.


The first bridge was built in 1876, was destroyed later in 1876, and was rebuilt in 1879. The first school was built in 1886. In 1874, Sauk Rapids was the end of the line for the new railroad. Settlers from as far away as the Red River Valley brought their produce there to ship it. A six-horse stage coach made biweekly trips between St.


Cloud and Crow Wing. In 1856, the county seat moved to Watab, then returned to Sauk Rapids in 1859. A new courthouse was built, but in 1897 the seat moved to Foley, where it remains. In 1917 the courthouse burned down. Sauk Rapids was one of Minnesota's most important cities until 1886, when, on April 14 at approximately 4:00 p.m., a tornado struck the town.


It swept through the center of the city, destroying all the stores. In Sauk Rapids, 44 people were killed and several hundred were injured. The Sauk Rapids Regional Bridge was completed in 2007. The new bridge links to 2nd Street rather than 1st Street, as the original Sauk Rapids Bridge did. Several buildings had to be demolished during the construction process, and some were rebuilt.


Some sidewalks were repaved with cobblestone and the medians were filled with granite blocks.


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