Market Street Methodist Church
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- 352 Market Street -
James Thompson donated materials and money in the 1840s for the construction of the city's first Methodist church in downtown Saint Paul.
Date: Approximately 1885
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
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James Thompson
- Saint Paul Early Settler, 1799-1884 -
James Thompson arrived at Fort Snelling as a slave in 1827. He married an Ojibwe woman and learned the language. In the 1830s, he was hired by missionary Alfred Brunson as an interpreter. Thompson's…