The First Lutheran Church in St. Peter at 1114 West Traverse Road can be seen in the distance in this 1965 view taken from a corn field west of Sunrise Drive. Sandbags and piles of sand mark the site of a dike that was built to hold back the large amount of water that collected in the nearby fields when the snow melted.
Volunteers are shown constructing a sandbag dike along Sunrise Drive in St. Peter during the 1965 flood. This image was taken from a location on the east side of Sunrise Drive. The city water tower and the Myrum Memorial Fieldhouse can be seen to the south. Melted snow was unable to soak into the frozen ground west of Sunrise Drive, which created a very large pool of water that threatened to flood homes in St. Peter to the east.
The First Lutheran Church in St. Peter at 1114 West Traverse Road can be seen in the distance in this 1965 view of flood water along Sunrise Drive. The approaching car is going south past sandbags and piles of sand at the site of a dike that was built to hold back the water.