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CMP Part 2. Community Management Plan Foundation City of Orono Community Management Plan 2020-2040 Part 2, Page 5 Table 2-1: IMPORTANT DATES IN ORONO HISTORY 1803 The Louisiana Purchase: U.S. acquires 828,000 square miles of land from France for about 3¢ an acre 1822 W. J. Snelling and Joe Brown explore the upper reaches of Minnehaha Creek and sight Lake Minnetonka 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux opens lands west of Mississippi for settlement; ratified by U.S. Senate in 1852 1852 Hennepin County organized; first township surveys conducted 1853 First settlers arrive in what is now Orono: Rev. Stephen Hull at 'The Narrows'; Stephen Bean of Maine at north shore of Stubbs Bay; John Carman at Spring Park; James and Francis Maxwell on Maxwell Bay. 1855 Arrival of many settlers in the Orono and Long Lake area: David Lydiard, Eleazer Dickey and Miles Bayer, all of Nova Scotia; the Edwin Turnham and George Maxwell families settle in Medina; the French, Fox and Fogelman families bring first horses to region; John Carman filed first subdivision in Orono, "Town of Tazaska" for land lying between North Arm, Forest Lake, West Arm and Crystal Bay, on May 3, 1855 1856 First sawmill in Orono on the Watertown Road, erected by Long Lake founder George Knettle; 'Tamarack' Post Office begun at home of Henry Stubbs; first stageline extended through Orono to Irvin Shrewsbury's corner in Independence 1858 Minnesota becomes 32nd state 1860 The Governor Ramsey, built by Charles Galpin, becomes first steamboat on Lake Minnetonka; many area roads surveyed by B.F. Christlieb, including "Harrington Road" (now Ferndale Road); final year that Chief Shakopee and his band of Sisseton Dakota winter at Teepee Hill (Union Cemetery ). 1861 Union Cemetery Association formed 1863 First church in area, Presbyterian Church of Medina, formed in the Old North (Lydiard) School, near Wolsfeld Lake. 1868 Railroad reaches Long Lake; land on north shore of Lake Minnetonka annexed from Excelsior township to Medina township 1870 Joel Stubbs patents sorghum processing unit, replacing wheat as major crop for a decade 1873 First dredging and widening of 'Hull's Narrows' opens upper lake for navigation 1880 George A. Brackett purchases 'Starvation Point' from Nathan Stubbs, renames it 'Orono Point' after boyhood home in Maine; Saga Hill colony begun on north shore of North Arm 1882 James J. Hill's spur line to Minnetonka Beach opens in conjunction with grand opening of Hotel Lafayette in June, 1882, helping to make Lake Minnetonka an internationally known resort destination; development grew up around the railroad stops such as Crystal Bay and Navarre 1884 Areas of Minnetonka Beach, Navarre and Spring Park added to Medina Township 1889 Town of Orono formed from parts of Medina and Excelsior Townships 1894 Village of Minnetonka Beach formed 1898 Formation of Minnetonka Fruit Growers Association 1906 Village of Long Lake incorporated, first telephone lines begun