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Gull Lake is a lake in the U.S. state of Minnesota, located in Cass County and Crow Wing County. It is one of the largest lakes in the Brainerd, Minnesota-Baxter, Minnesota area and also one of the most popular for vacationing and for recreation. [2] Of the seven Gull Lakes in Minnesota, this Gull Lake is the largest in area and shoreline. [2]
Hennepin County. Father Louis Hennepin was the first European explorer to visit and name Saint Anthony Falls, the tallest waterfall on the Mississippi River, in 1680.While the falls were familiar to the Ojibwe and Sioux Indians who lived in the area, Father Hennepin spread word of the falls when he returned to France in 1683.
Lake Minnetonka was officially named by Minnesota's territorial governor, Alexander Ramsey, in 1852. He had been informed that the Dakota used the phrase Mní iá Tháŋka (“the-water-they-speak-of-is-large” in the Dakota language) [1] to refer to the lake. Excelsior, the lake's first white settlement, was established the following year.
The Minnesota DNR also owns one island in Bill Horn Bay that they preserve. In the 1800s this was the island where the Sioux women and children hid from the attacking Ojibwa. In 1798, North West Company maintained a post on the western side of the lake; in 1830, American Fur Company established a post at the confluence of the Sandy River with ...
Theodore Northfoss of Wadena, Minnesota built the first cabin on Lake Blanche in 1896. Wadena is roughly 30 miles east of Lake Blanche and could be reached in a single day by horse in the 1890s. The heat of Wadena's summers and Blanche's pleasant environs enticed other Wadena residents to build seasonal cabins near Northfoss in the following years.
Map of the Arrowhead Region. The Arrowhead Region is located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota, so called because of its pointed shape.The predominantly rural region encompasses 10,635.26 square miles (27,545.2 km 2) of land area and includes Carlton, Cook, Lake and Saint Louis counties.
The lake is near the Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). The Minnesota DNR ranks Lake Vermilion as the fifth largest lake by surface area for bodies of water entirely within Minnesota borders. The surface area of Lake Vermilion is 39,271 acres (158.9 km 2) and has a maximum depth of 76 feet (23 m). [3]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) This is a list of sites in Minnesota which are included in the National Register of Historic Places. There are more than 1,700 properties and historic districts listed on the NRHP; each of Minnesota's 87 counties has at least 2 listings. Twenty-two ...
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