Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Souvenir and Story of the Most Popular Summer Resort in the Northwest, Lake Minnetonka: An Outline of Its Natural Beauty and Manifold Attractions
In April, 1851, a party of four men, among whom were Simon Stevens and Calvin A. Tuttle, left the two villages, St. Anthony and Albion, later Minneapolis, at the Falls of St. Anthony, on an exploring expedition, Lake Minnetonka being their objective point. They reached it at Grey's Bay, and finding the ice strong enough to bear them, crossed to Big Island. The next day they te turned to the falls. Soon afterward Stevens, Tuttle and Shaver made a claim at the point known as Minnetonka Mills and built there the first sawmill in Hennepin county erected by civilians.
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