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for a century, giving it its name of “The Last City of the East.” Once it had been made a capital, Saint Paul grew rapidly, following a plan laid out on the high bluff. But by 1849 although many people had arrived, most were still living in wagons and tents, with just two wood-framed hotels. Other houses were being put up among what was, at that time, scrubland of hazel bushes and scrub oaks.
The next step was to get a state capitol built. The first bridge to cross
Cedar Street 1906.
the Mississippi River in Saint Paul was the Wabasha Street Bridge, a wooden bridge completed in 1859.
In these early years the majority of the people moving to Saint Paul were
not Americans from the east, but French Canadians from Quebec as the English- speaking peoples took over from what had once been French Canada.
By the 1850s, there were others, too, including many Germans and Irish. The telegraph reached Saint Paul in 1860.
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