![]() In January,1853, the county Commissioners created the School Districts in Hennepin County. Wagner was the first white woman in these parts.) (The established price was $1.25 per acre.) ![]() Rhoda Bean and family, Joel and Eben Howe, John M. John Ware Dow was the first to file a claim in Crystal Lake Township. ![]() The early settlement of Crystal Lake was almost coincident with that of Minneapolis itself. Between this, prairie and the chain of lakes is a fine grove of timber, a favorite resort for and pleasure parties from Minneapolis.” (Later the site of MWA Park). Armstrong is the smallest of the four lakes in this town.” He describes Crystal Prairie, “four miles long and one mile wide starting at the southwest end of Crystal Lake extending northwesterly to the town line. Jaques, in 1891, gave a beautiful description of Crystal Lake Township, “bound on the east by the Mississippi River, on the north by Brooklyn, on the west by Plymouth and on the south by Minneapolis, originally as far south as 26th Avenue North.” He describes the lakes and says they “abound in fish and from the southeast end of Lower Twin, a beautiful stream, the south branch of Shingle Creek, flows eastward through Armstrong Lake and empties into the Mississippi at Camden Place. An 1874 map shows Crystal Township to be much smaller, extending only to the Mississippi and south to about 26th Avenue, North. Nothing seemed to be platted however, claims were being made starting in 1852. An 1860 map at the Minneapolis Public Library shows a lake just north of Crystal Lake and straight east of the southern tip of Lower Twin, named Armstrong. 24 W., 4th Meridian which included territory east of the Mississippi River and south of Cedar Lake. On January 1, 1852, the Third Territorial Legislative Assembly created Hennepin County and a map filed at the Surveyor General’s office on, February 27, 1854, shows we belonged to Township No.
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