Worthington, Minnesota Worthington, Minnesota Location of the town/city of Worthingtonwithin Nobles Countyin the state of Minnesota Location of the town/city of Worthington Worthington is a town/city and governmental center of county of Nobles County, Minnesota, United States.

Worthington, Minnesota 1893 The first European likely to have visited the Nobles County region of southwestern Minnesota was French explorer Joseph Nicollet.

The town of Worthington was established by "Yankees" (immigrants from New England and upstate New York who were descended from the English Puritans who settled New England in the 1600s). Paul & Sioux City Railway Company began connecting its two namesake metros/cities with a rail line.

One of these stations, at the site of present-day Worthington, was designated as "The Okabena Railway Station." Miller, editor of the Toledo Blade, organized a business to locate a colony of New England pioneer who had already settled in Northern Ohio along the tracks of the Sioux City and St.

These were citizens were "Yankee" pioneer whose parents had moved to the region of Northeast Ohio known as the Connecticut Western Reserve from the six New England states.

A town was plotted, and the name was changed from the Okabena Railway Station to Worthington - Worthington being the maiden name of Dr.

Miller's mother-in-law. On April 29, 1872, regular passenger train service to Worthington was started, and on that very first train were the first of the National Colony settlers.

Some pioneer from New England were however, drinking men, most of whom were civil war veterans from Massachusetts and Maine, who came into conflict with the temperance movement. A curious event took place on Worthington's very first Fourth of July celebration.

Hearing that there was a keg of beer in the Worthington House Hotel, Professor Humiston entered the hotel, seized the keg, dragged it outside, and finished it with an axe.

At first they came almost exclusively from the six New England states due to issues of overpopulation combined with territory shortages, which led to a stream of "Yankee" immigrants leaving that region.

Due to the large number of New Englanders and New England transplants from upstate New York the town of Worthington, like much of Minnesota at this time, was very culturally continuous with early New England culture for much of its early history. It was the age of the Homestead Act when 160 acres (0.65 km2) of government territory could be claimed for free.

According to the 1880 census, Nobles County boasted 4435 residents, 636 of them living in Worthington.

In the early 1900s German immigrants began arriving in Worthington in large numbers, though this later group did not come directly from Germany, but rather (mostly) came to Worthington from other places in the midwest, especially the state of Ohio, where their communities had already been established. Unlike other parts of the country, the Germans were not subjected to xenophobia in Nobles County, Minnesota but rather were welcomed with open arms by the "Yankee" populace who had established the town.

This led to many writing back to Ohio, which led to chain migration to the region which greatly increased the German-American population. The "Yankee" populace of old stock Americans of English descent did not come into conflict with the German-American improve for much of their early history together in what is now Worthington.

However eventually the two communities would be divided on the copy of World War I in which the Yankee improve would be divided and the Germans were unanimously opposed to American entry into the war.

Prior to World War I, many German improve leaders in Minnesota and Wisconsin spoke openly and enthusiastically about how much better America was than Germany, due primarily (in their eyes) to the existence of English law and the English political culture the Americans had inherited from the colonial era, which they contrasted with the turmoil and oppression in Germany which they had so recently fled. Other immigrant groups followed the Germans including setters from Ireland, Norway and Sweden.

For German, Irish and Scandinavian immigrants seeking a new life, southwestern Minnesota was a new world.

On December 12, 2006 the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E) staged a coordinated predawn raid at the Swift & Company meat packing plant in Worthington and at five other Swift plants in states, interviewing workers and hauling hundreds off in buses. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.74 square miles (22.64 km2), of which 7.34 square miles (19.01 km2) is territory and 1.40 square miles (3.63 km2) is water. Bureau of Enumeration now classifies Worthington as one of its micropolitan areas.

Population of the Worthington Micropolitan Area is 20,508.

There were 4,458 homeholds of which 34.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 48.4% were married couples living together, 10.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 6.3% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 34.6% were non-families.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.5% under the age of 18, 9.7% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 17.6% who were 65 years of age or older.

Worthington is positioned in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Tim Walz, a Democrat.

At the state level, Worthington is positioned in Senate District 22, represented by Republican Bill Weber, and in House District 22 - B, represented by Republican Rod Hamilton. High School: Worthington High School Middle School: Worthington Middle School Worthington Christian School MN-266.svg Minnesota State Highway 266 (decommissioned - designated as Nobles County Road 25) Matt Entenza, former minority prestige of the Minnesota House of Representatives (2002 2006) and a 2010 DFL candidate for governor of Minnesota.

He interval up in Worthington and attended Worthington enhance schools.

Stephen Miller, fourth governor of Minnesota from 1864 1866, later settled in Worthington, representing the region in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1873-1874.

Tim O'Brien, an American novelist known for his Vietnam War literature, interval up in Worthington in the 1950s.

John Olson, longtime state senator and Worthington native, represented southwestern Minnesota from 1959 1977.

The expansion of New England: the spread of New England settlement and establishments to the Mississippi River, 1620-1865 page 247 Worthington album : A universal of the Worthington Daily Globe by Crippen, Raymond.

Nobles County - Minnesota Historical Records Survey Project - The Project - 1939 From New Cloth : The making of Worthington By Hudson, Lew.

Published by American Legion Post #5, Worthington, MN 1976, a b Nobles County History by Al Goff - Nobles County Historical Society, Minnesota - 1958 "Worthington shaken after ICE raid", article Star Tribune by Richard Meryhew, December 14, 2006 "City Council | City of Worthington, Minnesota".

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