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  2. Lake Minnetonka - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of lakes of Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Cooks Bay (Minnesota) - Wikipedia

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    Cooks Bay, in Mound, Minnesota, is one of many bays that make up Lake Minnetonka. Its area is about 550 acres (223 ha). Its area is about 550 acres (223 ha). It is west of Island Park, and east of Mound's Highlands neighborhood.

  5. Minnehaha Creek - Wikipedia

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    Minnehaha Creek (Dakota: Mniȟáȟa Wakpádaŋ) is a 22-mile-long (35 km) tributary of the Mississippi River that flows east from Gray's Bay Dam on Lake Minnetonka [2] through the suburban cities of Minnetonka, Hopkins, Saint Louis Park, and Edina, and the city of Minneapolis.

  6. List of county roads in Hennepin County, Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    County Road 19 begins at State Highway 7 in Excelsior and dissects Lake Minnetonka through Tonka Bay and Orono, then continues northward through Independence, Maple Plain, Medina, Loretto, Corcoran, and Hanover, before crossing into Wright County at the Crow River and continuing northward as Wright County Road 19 through St. Michael and ...

  7. Six Mile Creek (Minnesota) - Wikipedia

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    Six Mile Creek drains a large area south and west of Lake Minnetonka, in Hennepin and Carver Counties, Minnesota, United States. It ends on the western shore of Halstead's Bay, the westernmost bay of Lake Minnetonka. It runs through mostly agricultural land but this area is also seeing more residential development.

  8. From Lake Minnetonka to swanky downtown Minneapolis hotels ...

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    Danny and Sophie Strauss met at a summer camp in Ely along the edge of the Boundary Waters, and fell in love with Finnish sauna culture. The 1930s log cabin sauna Minnesota's growing sauna culture ...

  9. Halstead's Bay - Wikipedia

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    Halstead's Bay (sometimes spelled Halsted's) is the westernmost bay of Lake Minnetonka. It is in the cities of Minnetrista and Mound, in Hennepin County, Minnesota. It is named for the settler Frank W. Halsted, [1] who migrated to its shores in 1855. Its main tributary is Six Mile Creek that enters the bay from the west. Access to the bay is ...