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  Welcome to the Mound Westonka Blog that covers subjects related to Mound Westonka, located on Western Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota. We'd like to hear your comments about anything local. My name is David Greenslit, and some of you know me as the CPA who with his partner, runs Tulberg & Greenslit, CPAs on Commerce Boulevard. I hope you enjoy this blog.

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  1. DG on Andrews Sisters Memories
     9/3/2009
  2. karlee on Andrews Sisters Memories
     6/6/2009
  3. Dr Rob Moore on Fish Kill Creek
     5/16/2009
  4. Christine Walgrave on Fish Kill Creek
     5/15/2009
  5. Jack Legus on Langdon Bay Creek Update
     2/14/2009
  6. Anne Hunt on Langdon Bay frozen over
     12/1/2008
  7. gml4 on Langdon Bay frozen over
     11/26/2008
  8. DG on Thank you for not running into me...
     9/5/2008
  9. Ron Keagle on Dakota Rail Regional Trail
     9/2/2008
  10. BB on Thank you for not running into me...
      5/18/2008

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  1. Surfside
     Friday, October 21, 2011
  2. Loon sighting
     Tuesday, July 12, 2011
  3. Langdon Bay gets a passing grade
     Sunday, June 12, 2011
  4. Annual Carp Run not yet observed
     Sunday, May 22, 2011
  5. 2011 Langdon Bay ice out
     Monday, April 11, 2011
  6. British Petroleum and Lake Minnetonka
     Friday, June 11, 2010
  7. Langdon Bay is Ice Out
     Wednesday, March 31, 2010
  8. Langdon Bay update
     Monday, March 29, 2010
  9. H & R Block
     Sunday, March 28, 2010
  10. 5th Annual Westonka Horticulture Day
      Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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• Lake Minnetonka Facts

  Lake Minnetonka was formed by melting ice blocks in glacial moraines 15,000 years ago. The Lake is 929.4 feet above sea level at its outlet, Grays Bay dam. Its greatest length is 10.9 miles (Halsteds Bay to Grays Bay). 30 feet is its average depth. April 12 - 17 is the range of its average ice-out dates. - from the Hennepin County Library.

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• Lake Minnetonka Cities

  There are 14 cities on Lake Minnetonka. They are: Deephaven, Excelsior, Greenwood, Minnetonka, Minnetonka Beach, Minnetrista, Mound, Orono, Shorewood, Spring Park, Tonka Bay, Victoria, Wayzata, and Woodland.

• Mound Minnesota's name

  "Mound derived its name from the Indian mounds once found within the present day limits. They were not built by the Dakota Indians but were made by prehistoric Indians...." - Melvin Gimmestad, from the book, Historical Backgrounds of Mound, Minnesota.

• Tonka Toys

  Mound was known as the "Trucking Capital of the World." Tonka Toys was once located in the present day Balboa building near the intersection of Shoreline and Wilshire.

• Lois Lane and Hercules

  Lois Lane and Hercules both once lived in Mound. Noel Neill appeared in the TV show "Superman". Kevin Sorbo starred as Hercules in the TV show of the same name in the 1990s.

• Saint Bonifacius

  This city was named for its Catholic church. Saint Boniface was the Apostle of the Germans. Bonifacius in Latin means, of good fate or fortune.

• City of Minnetrista

  "The City of Minnetrista is located on the western bays of Lake Minnetonka and the agricultural rich plains and idyllic woodlands of southwestern Hennepin County.....The 32 square miles is home to 5,250 residents who enjoy the rural residential and lakeside settings." - from the City's web page.

• Busy Corners

  The corner of Lake and Central Avenues used to be the center of Mound. Lake Avenue is now called Bartlett Boulevard and Central changed to Commerce Boulevard. Kirby's Bait Shop is located on Busy Corners.

• The Island

  Island Park is also known as Phelps Island, and once was called North Shore Park. Phelps is the largest island on Lake Minnetonka, and some say it was originally a peninsula. There was a lot of dredging done in Lake Minnetonka's past. It lies East of Cook's Bay and West of Spring Park Bay. Island Park merged with Mound in 1960. It is still called "The Island".

• Early Lake Minnetonka

  In 1822 Joe Brown, a drummer boy at Fort Snelling and the Commandant's son Will Snelling discover Lake Minnetonka. The two 14 year old boys canoed up Minnehaha Creek and found its source. It appears that relations with the Dakota Sioux at the time required that the Lake remain off limits. It wasn't until the 1850s that its existence becomes general knowledge. In 1852 Simon Stevens and Calvin Tuttle built a dam and sawmill on Minnehaha Creek some distance East of Lake Minnetonka. The next year a hotel is built nearby. In 1854 the Cook House is built in Mound. The 1850s are the beginning of significant settlement around Lake Minnetonka.

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