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The first people who inhabited the Lake Minnetonka area were Indigenous peoples who migrated to the region at the end of the last ice age circa 8000 BCE.Later peoples who inhabited the area between 3500 BCE and 1500 CE are commonly referred to collectively as the "Mound Builders" because they constructed large land features serving spiritual, ceremonial, burial, and elite residential functions.
The recording of ice-out dates for Lake Minnetonka started in 1870 and has been consistent since 1887. Fountain Lake ice-out dates. 1912: April 8. 1913: April 3. 1914: April 1. 1915: April 10.
The creation of 3 to 4 kilometres (1.9 to 2.5 mi) thick ice sheets caused a global sea level drop of about 120 m (390 ft) Diagram of glacial plucking and abrasion The glacial history of Minnesota is most defined since the onset of the last glacial period , which ended some 10,000 years ago.
Circa 10,000 B.C. – Tonka Bay forms during the recession of the last glaciation – the Wisconsin. Upper and Lower Lake Minnetonka and the peninsula and bays that now make up Tonka Bay forms as the ice sheet retreats. 1852 – Signing of Treaty of Traverse des Sioux that opens up the Lake Minnetonka area to white settlement.
The Minnehaha Creek in its name refers to the water link from Lake Minnetonka to the Mississippi River. The watershed is much larger than a lake or creek, and includes 29 communities, and encompasses 178 square miles (460 km 2). It stretches west from roughly Minnehaha Falls to Saint Bonifacius and north to Maple Plain.
The moose fell through the ice around 11 a.m. Thursday, about 200 feet (60 meters) from shore on Lake Abanakee, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced in a statement ...
Minnetonka: AA Lake: 1975, 1980 Minnetonka: Skippers Archived 2009-01-02 at the Wayback Machine: Minnetonka: AA Lake: 1985, 1990, 1994, 2006, 2010, 2018, 2023 2006 1990 2010, 2018, 2023 2018, 2023 Saint Michael-Albertville: Knights Archived 2005-05-14 at the Wayback Machine: St. Michael: AA Lake: 2018 Wayzata: Trojans Archived 2009-09-10 at the ...
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