Editing Goodhue County, Minnesota (section)

==History==
The county was created on March 5, 1853, with territory partitioned from [[Wabasha County, Minnesota|Wabasha County]]. It was named for [[James Madison Goodhue]] (1810–1852), who published the first newspaper in the territory, ''The Minnesota Pioneer''.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n232 <!-- pg=213 --> Minnesota Geographic Names, Warren Upham (1920).  "Goodhue was a man of very forcible character and of high moral principles . . "] (accessed March 9, 2019)</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gannett, Henry |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ |title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States |publisher=Govt. Print. Off. |year=1905 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n138 139]}}</ref>

The county was originally settled exclusively by "Yankee" settlers, meaning that they both came to Goodhue County either directly from the six New England states or from upstate New York, where they were born to parents who had moved to that region from the six New England states in the immediate aftermath of the American Revolution, and that they were descended from the English Puritans who emigrated to North America during the early 1600s. Because of the prevalence of New Englanders and New England transplants from upstate New York the county was said to have a "distinctly New England character". While this was true of many neighboring counties it was considered exceptionally true of Goodhue County. The New Englanders brought with them many of their New England values, including a love of education and fervent support of the abolitionist movement.<ref>History of Goodhue County, Minnesota By Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, pp. 9, 71, 108, 138-140, 155, 163, 213, 254, 259-261</ref> When the New Englanders arrived, they laid out farms, established post routes, and built schools and government buildings out of locally available materials.<ref>History of Goodhue County, Minnesota By Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge pp.. 97, 202, 271</ref> The New Englanders and their descendants made up the great majority of Goodhue County's inhabitants until the late 19th and early 20th century, when immigrants from Germany and Norway began arriving in the Minnesota-Wisconsin border region in large numbers. There were small numbers of immigrants from Germany, Norway and Sweden during the first several decades of Goodhue County's history as well.<ref>History of Goodhue County, Minnesota By Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge pp. 340-354, 365-383</ref>

[[Hamline University]], Minnesota's first college of higher learning, was started in [[Red Wing, Minnesota|Red Wing]] in 1854. It closed during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], and reopened in 1869 in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|Saint Paul]].

The county was a leading producer of wheat during the mid-19th century, and for several years the county boasted the highest wheat production in the country. Fires at two of Red Wing's mills in the 1880s and developing railroad routes across Minnesota encouraged farmers from neighboring counties to begin sending their wheat to [[Minneapolis]] mills, reducing the county's importance in the wheat trade around the start of the 20th century.

The first municipal swimming pool in the state was built in Goodhue County.

In October 1960, President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] visited the county for a bridge dedication ceremony. The Hiawatha Bridge had been built to replace the Old High Bridge that spanned the Mississippi River since 1895. This visit drew 20,000 people. Eisenhower hoped his visit would help in the elections, swaying Minnesota voters to vote for [[Richard Nixon]] in the [[1960 United States presidential election|1960 presidential election]] in the coming month. But [[John F. Kennedy]] carried the state on his way to being elected the next president.
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