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In the fall of 1856, a party of land speculators organized by Edwin Whitefield projected a town site on the west shore of Lake Wakanda. Whitefield, born in England, traveled across the United States as a real estate agent and artist, painting towns and selling frontier prints while promoting the merits of the Minnesota frontier to prospective settlers in the East. Whitefield, David Charlton, and C. L. Anderson selected the location of the Whitefield town site in Sections I and II of the present Whitefield Township, but the plat was never recorded. The only trace left by the town site promoters was the word "Whitefield" cut into the bark of a tree at the site. Whitefield also gave names to several lakes in what is now Kandiyohi County, including Lake Lillian, which was named for his wife, and his pencil sketches and water colors of the areas he visited became nationally known.
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