St. Cloud Police Break Ground On Their New Police Headquarters

摘要

Things have changed in St. Cloud since the first police headquarters was located in a cabin. In 1858 Bernard Overbeck agreed to keep the unruly in the cellar under his cabin. The following year the community made Bernard Overbeck the first and only police officer. He continued to work from his cabin home until 1866 when a new police station/jail was built due to "unfit" conditions at the cabin. The original cabin sits rnon the property of the Stearns History Museum and is the oldest structure in St Cloud. After the cabin was abandoned, the County Board built a new jail and the police worked out of it until 1918.