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- St Joseph, otherwise known as St Joe, started off as a fur trading post in the 1780s.
- Plots of land were sold, and it became a village in 1834, and then a city in 1891.
- It was across the water from Chicago, and until the railway came, this was the only way to reach the larger city.
- Boatbuilding and other manufacturing enterprises, such as what is now called Whirlpool, were established there.
- The St Joseph River was extended into Lake Michigan by means of breakwaters.
- The North Pier lighthouses have been featured on one of the USA Postal Service Great Lakes series of stamps.
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