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View of Excelsior Boulevard (Hennepin County Road 3) looking southwest from the bridge at the Minikahda Club toward St. Louis Park, 2014. The nearest intersection shown is at France Avenue (Hennepin County Road 17). County Road 3 begins in Minneapolis at the Mississippi River, and follows Lake Street west through most of Minneapolis.
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.
Hennepin County (/ ˈ h ɛ n ə p ɪ n / HEN-ə-pin) is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota.Its county seat is Minneapolis, [2] the state's most populous city. [3] The county is named for the 17th-century explorer Louis Hennepin. [4]
Hassan Township was an urban township in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. Located in the northwestern corner of the county, it was the last remaining township in the county. The population was 2,600 at the 2010 census. [3]
Hanover is a city in Wright and Hennepin counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota.The population was 3,548 at the 2020 census. [2] Hanover is mainly located within Wright County; only a small part of the city extends into Hennepin County.
Hamel is a neighborhood of Medina, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States.Hamel has its own fire station and post office with ZIP code 55340. [2]The area was platted as a city as early as 1879, but efforts to incorporate failed, in part, because of the complication of the town straddling the borders of both Medina and Plymouth. [3]
Woodland is a community in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, with lake shore property on Lake Minnetonka. The population was 437 at the 2010 census. [4] The first settlers arrived in 1857, when Woodland was part of Minnetonka Township. The land was formally platted in 1882 and developed through the 1890s.
By agreement of the city council, in January 1969, Brooklyn Center's library was sold to Hennepin County for $185,505 and the library's land was sold for an additional $34,745. [7] By the summer of 1973, plans were published to replace it with a new Hennepin County Library structure, similar to the Southdale Hennepin Area Library which opened ...