La Crescent
| La Crescent | |
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 Location in county and Minnesota
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1851 (1857 inc.) |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Minnesota |
| Counties : |
Houston County Winona County |
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 50 ′ N , 91 ° 18 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 4,923 (as of: 2000) |
| Population density : | 631.2 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 8.7 km 2 (approx. 3 mi 2 ) of which 7.8 km 2 (approx. 3 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 2007 m |
| Postal code : | 55947 |
| Area code : | +1 507 |
| FIPS : | 27-33866 |
| GNIS ID : | 0646292 |
La Crescent is a city in Houston County in Minnesota , United States . The population of the place in the year 2000 was 4923. A small part of the urban area extends into the neighboring Winona County .
La Crescent is nicknamed "Apple Capital of Minnesota" because of its numerous apple orchards. The place forms a common school district with Hokah .
geography
The place is on the banks of the Mississippi River , across from La Crosse in the state of Wisconsin. The place is surrounded by hills that offer a view of the river.
According to the data of the United States Census Bureau , the city has an area of 8.7 km² , of which 7.8 km² consists of land and 0.9 km² (= 9.85%) of water.
Demographics
At the time of the United States Census 2000, La Crescent was inhabited by 4923 people. The population density was 631.5 people per km ². There were housing units in 2014, an average of 258.3 per km². The population of La Crescent was 97.60% White , 0.43% Black or African American , 0.08% Native American , 0.87% Asian , 0.08% said they were racial , and 0.93% named two or more races. 0.73% of the population declared to be Hispanic or Latinos of any race.
The residents of La Crescent distributed to 1940 households, of which 35.0% were living in children under 18 years of age. 59.1% of households were married, 8.8% had a female head of the household without a husband and 29.5% were not families. 26.0% of households were made up of individuals and someone lived in 11.3% of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 3.02.
The urban population was distributed among 27.3% minors, 7.1% 18–24 year olds, 28.6% 25–44 year olds, 21.2% 45–64 year olds and 15.8% aged 65 and over or more. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 women there were 92.9 men. For every 100 women over the age of 18, there were 89.1 men.
The median household income in La Crescent was 45,433 US dollars and the median family income reached the amount of 54,708 US dollars. The median income for men was $ 40,316 compared to $ 24,308 for women. The per capita income for La Crescent was $ 21,361. 3.9% of the population and 0.8% of families had an income below the poverty line , of which 1.9% of minors and 12.8% of those aged 65 and over were affected.
history
The area around La Crescent has been inhabited for thousands of years. Before the arrival of the white settlers, the Dakota and Winnebago resided here.
After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Nathan Boone, Daniel Boone's youngest son , was among the surveyors who explored the area. The Indians living here were expelled in the 1840s to give more space for white settlement.
La Crescent was founded in 1851 by Peter Cameron and was originally named Camerons . Cameron tried to dig a canal to re-route the Mississippi River so that it bypassed La Crosse across the river in Wisconsin and was closer to the place he founded. However, he died in 1857 about ten weeks before the planned completion of the canal, which was then no longer completed. The remains of the canal are still visible in aerial photographs today.
After Cameron's death, the place was renamed "Manton" by William and Harvey Gillet, who cleared the current settlement center. Shortly thereafter, the somewhat unscrupulous Kentucky Land Company changed the name to La Crescent. They wanted to better attract a more romantic-sounding name of the city to the settlers and came to the name, because the river around the city (in English a bow in the form of a crescent moon crescent ) makes. La Crescent was incorporated in 1857.
John S. Harris had arrived in La Crescent in 1856 and gave the city its face as the center of apple cultivation. Despite the assumption by almost everyone that apples cannot thrive in Minnesota, Harris planted his first apple trees in 1857 and made trials until he found trees tough enough to withstand the harsh winters of the Midwest . He planted thousands of apple trees and tried hundreds of varieties, half of which were total losses. Harris was a founding member of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society. Since 1947 the city has celebrated its legacy every year with an apple festival. In 2002 the city registered the title “Apple Capital of Minnesota” (German: Apple Capital of Minnesota) as a trademark.
The acreage has remained almost unchanged since the 1940s, although the number of apple growers has now fallen to a quarter of what it was then. Eighty percent of production is sold in Minnesota, with the remainder going to surrounding states and Canada.