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Christmas Lake

Shorewood, Minnesota
Historical Marker Database · Martha Decker
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Christmas Lake was named for Charles W. Christmas, the first county surveyor of Hennepin County, who was elected in 1852 and platted the original town site of Minneapolis for John H. Stevens and Franklin Steele. Christmas Lake and Lake Minnetonka now occupy what in pre-glacial times was part of the channel of the Mississippi River near its junction with the pre-glacial Minnesota River.
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Shorewood, Minnesota · United States

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