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This mine is the largest open pit iron mine in the world. Located in the Mesabi Range, it supplied as much as one-fourth of all the iron ore mined in the United States during its peak production years of World War I and World War II. This area of the Mesabi Range was explored in 1893–1894, shortly after the Mountain Iron mine was established ...
Eagle Ridge Academy is a charter school with a philosophical emphasis on the classical education movement that serves grades Kindergarten through twelve. It is located in the southern part of Minnetonka, MN (close to Eden Prairie, Minnesota) having moved from another location in 2016. [7]
County Road 67 was the current County 62 from Baker Road (County 60) to Interstate 494 on the Eden Prairie / Minnetonka boundary line. This road was renumbered as County 62 when the segment of then-County 62 (now State Highway 62 / MN 62) between Shady Oak Road (County 61) and Interstate 494 opened in 1986 and County 62 was then extended westward.
The freeway between Interstate 494 and Interstate 694 was originally built by Hennepin County as County Road 18. In 1988, County Road 18 was transferred to the state of Minnesota and became the new alignment for Highway 169 in the Minneapolis area. In exchange, Hennepin County took over maintenance of two other highways that were formerly state ...
Minnetonka Beach: 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 ...
Many of the oldest roadside attractions still can be visited today. When travel by car became more affordable for many Americans in the 1920s and 30s, road trips were invented!
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 ...
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.