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St. Cloud (5)

1909

The town of St. Cloud is a significant story.  According to a history prepared by the City of St. Cloud, it was "founded on April 16, 1909, as a retirmenet community for Civil War Union veterans who paid $50 for five-acre lots."  This was a project of the Grand Army of the Republic, the main Union veterans organization.

Downtown streets running north to south were originally named for states that remained loyal to the Union during the Civil war.  As the town grew, streets were named for former Confederate states.

Preserved in this town as significant monuments to the Civil War is the G.A.R. Memorial Hall, the Veterans Memorial Library, an early monument in Mount Peace Cemetery, and recent G.A.R. and Confederate monuments in Veterans Park.

St. Cloud also included a Veteran's Memorial Park which included a fountain and fish pond.



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