Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Bayport, MN

Bayport is a small city in Washington County, Minnesota, on the west bank of the St. Croix River about a mile south of Stillwater, with the motto 'A Historic City on the St. Croix River.'

Bayport began as three small river settlements — Baytown, Middletown and Bangor — which the St. Croix Railway Improvement Company combined into South Stillwater in 1873; it was incorporated as a village in 1881.

Because people kept confusing South Stillwater with the city of Stillwater just up the river, residents voted to rename the city Bayport in 1922.

Bayport's early economy centered on lumber, with several sawmills operating from 1852 to 1916, and the city is sometimes called the 'Mayberry on the St. Croix.'

Bayport is the headquarters of Andersen Corporation, the largest window and door manufacturer in North America, founded in 1903 in Hudson, Wisconsin, by Danish immigrant Hans Andersen and his family.

Andersen built its factory in Bayport in 1913, and its Bayport production facility covers about 65 acres; in 1923 Andersen became the first company in its industry to give all employees two weeks of paid vacation.

The 2020 census counted 4,024 people in Bayport in 1,038 households, a total that includes the roughly 1,200 men incarcerated at the state prison in the city.

The Minnesota Correctional Facility–Stillwater is actually located in Bayport, having moved there from Stillwater in 1914, when experts considered it one of the most modern penal institutions in the world; the maximum-security Oak Park Heights prison opened just beyond Bayport's western boundary in 1982.

Bayport has long been a boating town: the Bayport Boat Yard built well-known steamboats and did barge construction and repair through World War II, and today the Bayport Marina gives boaters access to the St. Croix River.

Bayport has four public parks — Lakeside Park, Barker's Alps Park, Perro Park and Village Green Park — and the Andersen Elementary School in town is named for the window company.