717 N 9th Street, st peter, MN 56082 (MLS # 126025)

Property Type(s): Residential, Single Family

Last Updated	10/25/2011	Tract	n/a
Year Built	1964	Community	St. Peter/Kasota/Cleveland
Garage Spaces	n/a	County	Nicollet
Total Parking	n/a	Walk Score ®	37

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Hunting On Swan Lake, Outdoorsman's Dream Features Include: This Is A Great Cabin In Excellent Condition! Positioned On 2.5 Acres Right On Swan Lake. It Has A Full Indoor Bathroom, Two Large Bedrooms, A Full Kitchen And A Large Deck. Beautiful View Of The Famous Swan Lake With Great Lake Front. It Also Comes With Three Sheds For All Of Your Hunting Gear. Call Today For A Showing!

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43686 436th Street, St.Peter, MN 56082 (MLS # 127821)

This Beautiful Colonial Home Is Located On Middle Lake. Large Home With New Windows And In Excellent Condition. It Is A Great Place For Anyone Wanting To Enjoy The Country Lifestyle. It Has A Large Heated Outbuilding. Also Features A Well-Established Grove And Lots Of Mature Trees, Large Rooms, Walk-In Freezer, Gas Fireplace, And A Master Bedroom With A Private Balcony. This Home Is One Of Kind. Call Today.

Property Type(s): Residential, Single Family

Last Updated	1/16/2012	Tract	n/a
Year Built	1902	Community	St. Peter/Kasota/Cleveland
Garage Spaces	n/a	County	Nicollet
Total Parking	n/a	Walk Score ®	3

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Nice Home With Great Sun Room And Large Back Yard. Storage Shed, Large Garage With Built In Lofts - Great For Storage. Updated Kitchen Hardwood In Bedrooms And Lots Of Storage. This Home Also Has Egress In The Basement Adding The Potental For Another Bedroom. This Home Is In Excellent Shape Call Today.

Property Type(s): Residential, Single Family

Last Updated	1/6/2012	Tract	n/a
Year Built	1965	Community	St. Peter/Kasota/Cleveland
Garage Spaces	n/a	County	Nicollet
Total Parking	n/a	Walk Score ®	42

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St. Peter was founded in 1853 by Captain William Bigelow Dodd, who claimed 150 acres north of what is now Broadway Avenue. He named the new settlement Rock Bend because of the rock formation at the bend of the Minnesota River. The town site was platted and surveyed in 1854 by Daniel L. Turpin. In 1855 a group of St. Paul businessmen interested in promoting the town formed the Saint Peter Company, and the town was renamed St. Peter. The president of the Company was Willis A. Gorman, Territorial Governor of Minnesota. Many of the streets in St. Peter were named after streets in New York City; Park Row, Chatham, Broadway, Nassau, Union for example. Captain Dodd was originally from Bloomfield, New Jersey, his second wife Harriett Newell Jones, a native of Cabot, Vermont was living in New York at the time of their marriage at the Church of the Holy Communion in New York City, that church helped fund the church in St. Peter which shares the same name.

In 1857 an attempt was made to move the Territory of Minnesota’s capital from St. Paul to St. Peter. Gov. Gorman owned the land on which the bill’s sponsors wanted to build the new capitol building, and at one point had been heard saying, “If the capitol remains in Saint Paul, the territory is worth millions and I have nothing.” At the time, St. Peter – a city in the central region of the territory – was seen as more accessible to the far-flung territorial legislators than St. Paul, which was in the extreme eastern portion of the territory, on the east bank of the Mississippi River. A bill was passed in both houses of the Territorial Legislature and was awaiting Governor Gorman’s signature. The chairman of the Territorial Council’s Enrolled Bills Committee, Joseph J. Rolette of Pembina, took the bill and hid in a St. Paul Hotel, drinking and playing cards with some friends as the City Police looked fruitlessly for him, until the end of the legislative session, too late for the bill to be signed. Rolette came into the chamber just as the session ended. One might say that the bill was an attempt to “rob Paul to pay Peter”. Today, St. Paul is the second largest city in the state (second only to neighboring Minneapolis), while St. Peter is a relatively small rural town.

In 1851 the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux was signed between the Sioux (Dakota) and the U. S. Government just one mile (1.6 km) north of St. Peter. The Nicollet County Historical Society—Treaty Site History Center is located near the site of the treaty signing. The promises of the treaty were not kept. The Dakota became angered and the Dakota War of 1862 began in Cottonwood County. In August 1862 the Dakota attacked the German settlement of New Ulm. A company of volunteers from St. Peter, headed by Captain William B. Dodd, St. Peter’s founder, went to the defense of New Ulm. Captain Dodd was killed on August 23, 1862, and was briefly buried in New Ulm. On November 11, 1862, Captain Dodd was buried with high military honors in St. Peter on the grounds of the Church of the Holy Communion (Episcopal), on land he donated to the church. Captain Dodd, his wife Harriet and two children are buried behind the present stone church built in 1869-70 at 118 North Minnesota Avenue.

In 1866 the Legislature established the first “Minnesota Asylum for the Insane” in St. Peter. It was later known as the St. Peter State Hospital, and is now called the St. Peter Regional Treatment Center.

Although he was retired, Hartley did continue to come down to the office on a regular basis to answer the telephone and things of that nature.  Hartley was never really involved in the insurance side of the business.  He held a real estate license, but was not active in the business,and basically retired.  In 1963 when Bill started the business Hartley was 63 years old, so he would not have wanted to work that hard anymore.
After several  years of being in business, Bill purchased the Henry N. Benson agency, a small agency.  Bill then purchased the W. Hallander agency, which at that time was the largest agency in St. Peter.  Our agency grew to be about equal in size, thus now making it the largest in St Peter.  As time progressed we also purchased the Wally Reineke agency and Leighton Swenson agency.  These have been our acquisitions over the years and we have always been, at times, heavily into rental property and do a lot of contract for deed financing.  We are somewhat limited in the amount of building we do, but all in all we are pretty active in all phases of the real estate and insurance business.

If you were to say something you could say that we have continuously served the St Peter community for the last 50 years.  Hopefully we are here to stay.