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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.
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 ...
Wayzata (/ w aɪ ˈ z ɛ t ə / wy-ZET-ə) is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States.The population was 4,434 at the 2020 census. [2] The city is about 12 miles (19 kilometres) west of Minneapolis and is situated on the northern shore of Lake Minnetonka, the ninth largest lake in the state.
This is a list of lakes of Minnesota.Although promoted as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", Minnesota has 11,842 lakes of 10 acres (4.05 ha) or more. [1] The 1968 state survey found 15,291 lake basins, of which 3,257 were dry. [2]
Its area is about 550 acres (223 ha). It is west of Island Park, and east of Mound's Highlands neighborhood. Between the 1870s until the 1920s, Cooks Bay was known for its family hotels including Chapman House, Bartlett Place, Buena Vista Hotel, Hotel Kern, Hotel Dewey, and the Sunset Villa.
1853 – Reverend Stephen Hull comes to the area. He creates the first narrows, “Hull’s Narrows,” located nearby present-day County Road 19 north of West Point Road. The Narrows allows boats to pass between Upper and Lower Lake Minnetonka. 1864 - Horticulturist Peter Gideon claimed 160 acres (0.65 km 2) in what would become Tonka Bay.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 13.33 square miles (34.52 km 2), of which 5.34 square miles (13.83 km 2) is land and 7.99 square miles (20.69 km 2) is water. [3] It includes the Lake Minnetonka islands of Spray, Shady, and part of Enchanted.
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]