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King Field, Minneapolis

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This was farm country in the second half of the 19th century. Transportation was by horse and buggy. Fewer than 20 farms had been established by 1874. C.C. Garvey owned a dairy farm near 44th Street and Grand Ave. George Bichnell farmed 18 acres (73,000 m) of land from Lyndale to Pleasant, 42nd
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Harriet Ave. named after the wife of Col. Leavenworth, whose maiden name was Harriet Lovejoy. (She is also the source of the name Lake Harriet). Col. Leavenworth was the first commandant of a temporary fort known in 1819 as Fort St.
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to 43rd Streets. Hiram Van Nest farmed 28 acres (110,000 m) of land from 40th to 42nd, Pleasant to Lyndale. The Farmsworth farm occupied 57 acres (230,000 m) south of 47th Street and East of Nicollet.
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names after the 1,400-acre (5.7 km) Lyndale farm owned by William S. King which bordered Lake Harriet and Bde Maka Ska. The name for the farm was in honor of Mr. King’s father, Rev. Lyndon King.
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Blaisdell Ave. named in honor of Robert Blaisdell, Sr. and his three sons, who were early pioneers here and lumbermen on the upper Mississippi river (No Uncle Charlie, though).
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commemorates Joseph N. Nicollet, geographer and explorer whose maps of the area, now Minnesota and the eastern part of North and South Dakota, were published in 1843.
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Taken from “Early History of the Kingfield Neighborhood”, a new resident handout circa 1992 via Kingfield Neighborhood Association Web Site
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on the west. The northern boundary is 36th Street, and the southern boundary is 46th Street.
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Van Nest Ave. named after Hiram Van Nest, one of the earliest settlers in the vicinity of
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The following is a list of streets in King Field, and the origin of their names:
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Garfield Ave. named after James Garfield, the assassinated president of the US.
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and 40th Street was largely built between 1903 and 1914 with
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In 1885, the southern border of the city of Minneapolis was
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Neighborhood
Location of King Field within the U.S. city of Minneapolis
Minneapolis
44°55′38″N 93°16′51″W / 44.9272°N 93.2809°W / 44.9272; -93.2809
Country
State
Minnesota
County
Hennepin
City
Minneapolis
Community
Southwest
Named for
William S. King
Andrea Jenkins
Time zone
UTC-6
CST
DST
UTC-5
CDT
Area code
612
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1990
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2010
2020
Southwest

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