Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Carver, MN

Carver is a city on the Minnesota River in Carver County, Minnesota, named after explorer Jonathan Carver, who explored the area in 1766 and named a small tributary flowing into the river "Carver's River."

In 1834 a Wahpeton Dakota village led by Chief Mazomaini stood at the present-day site of Carver, on either side of the mouth of Carver Creek where it meets the Minnesota River.

Norwegian immigrant Axel Jorgenson settled the site by 1852, before the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux was fully ratified, and in 1854 he sold his claim to the Carver Land Company, a group of seven speculators that included former territorial governor Alexander Ramsey, who was responsible for naming the town Carver.

Carver was platted in 1857 as a steamboat boomtown, and the steamboat Antelope made daily round trips between Carver and St. Paul, a one-way river run of 32 miles.

Carver's school district was established in 1857 and was known as Minnesota School District #1 for a century.

In 1858 Carver had a small gold rush after gold was purportedly found in Spring Creek.

During the Dakota War of 1862, many settlers sought refuge in Carver because its steamboat connection offered evacuation to Fort Snelling, and the town was spared from attack.

The arrival of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway in 1871 shifted traffic away from the river and began Carver's long decline; Carver incorporated as a village in 1877, and the April 1965 flood later led to construction of a floodwall along the Minnesota River.

The Carver Historic District, which includes 87 buildings and four structures, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as one of the first historic districts in Minnesota, and in 2007 the White House named Carver a Preserve America Community.

After shrinking for a century — from 724 residents in 1860 to just 467 in 1960 — Carver boomed as a suburb, reaching 5,829 residents at the 2020 census.