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We would like to provide the residents of  New Brighton  a basic history overview.


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

New Brighton has a population of 22663. 47.5% of New Brighton’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.5 are female. 50.5% of New Brighton is married and 61.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $267,592, and the average rent is $1,081. Household median income in New Brighton is $75,099, and the individual median income is $38,544. New Brighton’s Ethnic is the following: White(75.3%), Black(10.4%), Hispanic(7.9%), Asian(6.2%), Multiple(4.4%), Other(3.3%), Native(0.3%).


In the mid 18th century, Mdewakanton Dakota tribes lived in the vicinity of New Brighton's marshy lakes, harvesting wild rice. The Dakota eventually settled a village near Long Lake at Rice Creek and a smaller encampment just east of Silver Lake Road on 3rd Street NW. Immigrants from Britain and France settled a small village in 1858 which included a general store, school and mission church.


As railroads were established in the area, millers in Minneapolis formed the Minneapolis Stockyards and Packing Company in 1888. The company supplied home, agriculture, and business needs. The venture included Minneapolis figures such as streetcar magnate Thomas Lowry, flour millers John Sargent Pillsbury, Senator William D.


Washburn, ex-Minneapolis Mayor W.H. Eustis, and industrialist W.H. Dunwoody. As the village grew in prominence, it was incorporated on January 20, 1891. The city was given the name Brighton after Brighton, Massachusetts. The founding population was primarily English-American. Each August, a city festival celebrates this heritage, called the Stockyard Days and is held at Long Lake Park. As the streetcar system expanded in the early 20th century, immigrant and first-generation groups from Eastern Europe and Germany began moving outwards from Northeast Minneapolis.


New Brighton and St. Anthony residents also continue to celebrate this ethnic heritage with an annual Polka Dance Party which began in 1892. In the 1920s, a local farmer said he heard a rumor that gold bars were buried along the eastern shore of Long Lake by bootleggers. This rumor spread and in the following years launched a mini "gold rush" along Long Lake to find the treasure.


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