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Largest lake, shared with South Dakota. Long 155 5 mph Brown south of Ainsworth Mallard Landing 90 Douglas County: private lake Maloney: 1,650 Lincoln: near North Platte McConaughy: 30,500 Keith: near Ogallala. Largest lake entirely within the State of Nebraska. Lake Minatare: 2,158 Scotts Bluff NE of Scotts Bluff Ogallala 650 5 mph Keith near ...
1928 water tower, linchpin of the municipal water supply system that allowed Minnetonka Beach to grow from an upper-class resort to a community of year-round residents, and a well-preserved example of a once-common early-20th-century design. [135] 122: Minnetonka Town Hall: Minnetonka Town Hall: March 15, 2021 : 13231 Minnetonka Dr.
Lake Minnetonka (Dakota: Mní iá Tháŋka [1]) is a lake located about 16 miles (26 km) west-southwest of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lake Minnetonka has about 23 named bays and areas. [2] The lake lies within Hennepin and Carver counties and is surrounded by 13 incorporated municipalities. At 14,528 acres (5,879 ha), it is Minnesota's ninth ...
1852 – Signing of Treaty of Traverse des Sioux that opens up the Lake Minnetonka area to white settlement. 1852 –Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey explores Lake Minnetonka and officially names it “Minne” (Sioux for water) and “Tonka” (Sioux for big or strong). 1853 – Reverend Stephen Hull comes to the area.
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 Thompson Summer House is a house in Minnetonka Beach, Minnesota, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located on Hennepin County Road 15, across from Lafayette Bay on Lake Minnetonka. The house was built in 1887 for Charles Telford Thompson, an attorney and civil leader, and his wife. [2]
The community is on Lake Minnetonka, centered on the Cottagewood General Store, which has been serving the Lake Minnetonka area since 1895. [5] Deephaven is 14 miles (23 km) west-southwest of downtown Minneapolis. The population was 3,642 as of the 2010 Census, down from 3,853 as of the 2000 census. [6]
Minnetonka Mills, with its post office and port for Lake Minnetonka, was the principal business and trading center for a large area until the 1870s. Between 1883 and 1956, the area within the original 36-square-mile (93 km 2 ) township grew smaller as Wayzata , Hopkins , Deephaven , Woodland and Saint Louis Park incorporated or annexed portions ...