Collegeville is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
St. Wendel Township,
Stearns County,
Minnesota
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, United States, near
St. Joseph. The community is located near the junction of Collegeville Road and Old Collegeville Road. Nearby is
Saint John's Abbey, a large Benedictine monastery.
History
The community was named for
Saint John's University.
St. John's Indian Industrial School was a
Native American residential school that operated in Collegeville from 1885 to 1896 that was run by Saint John's University.
In 1888, Native residential school students made up 47 percent of the student population of Saint John's.
The
disappearance of Joshua Guimond, a student at Saint John's University, happened on campus in 2002.
Geography
Collegeville is located within section 32 of St. Wendel Township.
Collegeville Township lies to the southwest.
Climate
References
Unincorporated communities in Minnesota
Unincorporated communities in Stearns County, Minnesota
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