Editing Cold Spring, Minnesota (section)

==History==
Originally home to the [[Ojibwe|Ojibwe, Winnebago]], and [[Dakota people]], Cold Spring was platted in 1856, and named for the many springs near the original town site.<ref>{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n540 523]}}</ref> A post office has been in operation at Cold Spring since 1857.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Stearns |title=Stearns County |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |access-date=8 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118191353/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Stearns |archive-date=18 January 2016 }}</ref>

German-speaking Catholics settled in the area, lured by the Slovenian missionary priest [[Francis Xavier Pierz]], who had submitted letters and advertisements to the major German-language newspapers across the U.S., such as ''[[Der Wahrheitsfreund]]'' (''The Friend of Truth''), and in Europe, urging "good, pious" German Catholics to come to the Sauk River Valley, which he called a "land flowing with milk and honey" and safe from disease and anti-Catholic oppression.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Howard |first=Brice J. |title=One Hundred Years, Jacobs Prairie |year=1954 |oclc=7415982}}{{page needed|date=May 2022}}</ref><ref name="Vogeler1976">{{cite journal |last1=Vogeler |first1=Ingolf |date=1976 |title=The Roman Catholic Culture Region of Central Minnesota |journal=Pioneer America |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=71–83 |jstor=20831836}}</ref>

During the grasshopper plagues of the 1870s, [[Assumption Chapel]], also known as the Grasshopper Chapel, was built in petition for relief from the locusts.

Cold Spring has three properties on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]: the [[John Oster House]] and [[Ferdinand Peters House]], both built in 1907, and the [[Eugene Hermanutz House]], built in 1912.<ref>{{cite web |title=Minnesota National Register Properties Database |url=http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/nrhp/ |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |year=2009 |access-date=2018-06-12}}</ref>

The city was thrust in the national spotlight on September 24, 2003, when then 15-year-old Jason McLaughlin shot and killed two classmates in the [[2003 Rocori High School shooting|Rocori High School shooting]].