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porch , west side porch, and probably a two-story porch or veranda on the rear. The front porch was removed during a 1976 garage addition. A large rear addition is also not original to the home, having been added in 1988. 320 Ash Street, Joseph A. Pike House. Built about 1863 by Joseph A. Pike on a lot he purchased in 1862 from Alexander Ramsey, who was then serving as Governor of Minnesota. Ramsey had previously been the first Territorial Governor of Minnesota, serving from 1849-1853. Joseph A. Pike was already living in Carver, Minnesota in September 1857 when he appears on the special U. S. Census for the Territory of Minnesota. The census indicates that Pike was then age 26, born in the State of Vermont, his birth date about 1831. He is probably the same Joseph A. Pike named in the 1850 U. S. Census for Somerset, Windham County, Vermont, born about 1832, the son of farmers Joseph and Salome Pike. Pike is quite probably the same person found in Mormon genealogical archives as Joseph Alexander Pike, born October 12, 1831 in Windom, Somerset County, Vermont. In the 1860 U. S. Census for Carver Joseph A. Pike is named as the proprietor of a sawmill, born about 1832. The house was built during the period 1862-1864 and it is probable that at least some of the lumber for the erection of the house came from Pike‟s sawmill. It is possible this sawmill was the same one located just outside of Carver in Dahlgren Township that was owned until about 1860 by Carver merchant and businessman Levi Griffin. Joseph A. (J.A.) Pike appears in Carver‟s 1863-1864 register of those eligible to pay the election poll tax. Pike was married to Carverite Kathryn (Catherine) Demers about 1861, born in New York about 1844, the sister-in-law of Carver merchant Anders G. Anderson, who lived at 208 Main Street West in Carver. In 1864 the Pikes sold the house and lot to Peter and Christine Thompson for $600, and probably moved shortly after that. Joseph and Kathryn Demers Pike appear as farmers in the 1870 U. S. Census for Yates Township in McLean County, Illinois. Living with them was Kathryn‟s younger sister Harriet Demers. Kathryn died in Illinois in November 1877, and at the 1880 U. S. Census for Illinois Joseph is still living as a widower in Yates Township in Illinois, For 54 years, from 1864-1918, the house was owned by Peter Thompson Jr. and his wife Christine (Christina) Danielsdotter. Christine was born in Herrlunga, Västra Götaland County on July 24, 1836 and came to America in 1854, locating early at Carver. Peter Thompson Jr. was born in Järvsjö, Hälslingland, Sweden on Jan. 27, 1839 and came to America with his parents in 1850, taking residence with them as pioneers in Carver in the fall of 1858. On Mar.18, 1860 Peter and Christine were married in Carver. For their wedding they took an overland trip to Monongalia County (later merged into Kandiyohu County) and took up a claim on Lake Elisabeth/Henderson Lake. They were in the area at the time of the start of the Dakota Uprising of 1862, but escaped the massacre by starting a journey back to Carver but a few days before the Sioux attacked, killing their cattle and burning lumber they had cut for a house. Peter clerked in Carver, then managed a Carver store for several years, then spent a season without getting paid on the Minneapolis-St. Louis Railroad line between Carver and Mirriam Junction. Peter met steamboat captain George Houghton and worked for a year as boat clerk on the Davidson
line, earning $125 month, while gaining experience with transport on the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. On Oct. 5, 1871 Peter Thompson entered into the mercantile business in Worthington, Minnesota and the Thompsons moved there, though they continued to own the Ash Street home for some 46 additional years, probably renting it out during that time. In Worthington, Peter Thompson Jr. was present when the town was platted, built the first store, founded the Nobles County Bank, held several public offices including serving as Nobles County Treasurer from 1878-1880. He also founded the Worthington Globe newspaper, sold agricultural machinery, operated a mercantile business, invested in real estate, and built and owned Worthington‟s Hotel Thompson. Peter Thompson Jr. was so involved in Worthington‟s founding that he has come to be called “The Father of Worthington”. In 1918 in advanced years Peter and Christine Thompson sold their Ash Street property to Peter Kleven Jr. (born in 1863) who would own it for the next 36 years. Peter Kleven Jr. was a farmer, creamery man, and raised livestock in nearby San Francisco Township prior to purchasing the house in Carver. He was the son of Norwegian immigrant Peter Kleven Sr. (born in 1818), who was one of the two 1852 cofounders of East Union, located just to the west of Carver. The senior Peter Kleven had been a baptismal witness to one of the Thompsons‟ children while they still lived in Carver, and it is quite possible that the East Union founder and his family rented the Ash Street home in their retirement years, prior to it being sold to son Peter Kleven Jr. The house sits on a high vista above the Minnesota River Valley at Carver. The earliest part of the house, oriented east-west, is built on a wooden frame in the Greek Revival style above a limestone and Mirriam red rock rubble foundation. It features a quaint early pilastered side hall entrance with transom and sidelights facing Ash Street. A later addition, oriented north-south, transformed the building into a T-plan. 412 Fourth Street West, St. Nicholas Catholic Church. Built as a Roman Catholic Church under the direction of Father Magnus Mayr, a Benedictine Priest, it was consecrated on Dec.6, 1868 on the feast day of St. Nicholas when a delegation of 200 people with banners marched to the church, led by the Great Western Band of St. Paul, which was organized in the 1850s. The construction cost for the church was $4,000. The parish church sits on a high promontory with a splendid view overlooking the town of Carver and the Minnesota River Valley. From the church bell tower, it is said, one could see all the way to Fort Snelling in the days when the area was barren of trees. The area near the church was originally platted in 1857 to be the Carver Town Square, and an old tradition states that there was (or is yet hidden) a Carver cornerstone monument up on the hill near St. Nicholas. In August 1868 many of the lots on Carver Block 44 were consolidated to build the church and sold by various owners to Bishop Thomas Grace, the second Roman Catholic Bishop of St. Paul, Minnesota, representing the Franciscan Brotherhood. Virtually all of the rest of the church property was purchased or acquired by Henry and Susanna Zanger, their son George, and other heirs. Great benefactors to St. Nicholas Church, the Zanger family on Third Street East in Carver gave (sold for a dollar
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In August and September of 1862 the
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In September 2009 the Carver and Ch
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Axel Jorgenson and his wife Ellen w
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Carver during the Civil War and dar
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and one overland. Griffin didn‟t
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The Carver Free Press newspaper of
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After several owners, the house pas
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Hermann immigrated to America with
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Joseph Peitz died in the early 1860
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formed and headed Carver-on the-Min
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the stone for the bridge being obta
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Carver County Sheriff‟s Office se
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On Aug. 21, 1943 at the league‟s
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and owned by Carver banker and merc
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hotel keeper in his own right. A. M
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Riverside Park. During those years
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occupied the site for many decades.
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on the south end of the front side,
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the park and new pavilion. Total es
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February 13, 1909. The Michels‟ s
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and 1867 Enoch Holmes acquired the
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Another much smaller H & D Railroad
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Business Directory for 1873 the Her
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urned, killing two, including the p
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the Carver Depot, purchased the Min
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the tide away from St. Paul as the
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way home after walking to Carver to
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constructed shortly thereafter, whi
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In 1891 Enoch Holmes sold the two-s
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The Carver House/Planter‟s House,
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Skoog-Wetter General Store. Once lo
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