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Tonka Bay, Minnesota
Summary
Tonka Bay is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. It is located on Lake Minnetonka between the upper and lower lakes. It gained some popularity in the 1880s and 1890s as a summer lake resort. The population of Tonka Bay was 1,475 at the 2010 census.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Manitou Road serves as a main route.
Circa 10,000 B.C. – Tonka Bay forms during the recession of the last glaciation – the Wisconsin. Upper and Lower Lake Minnetonka and the peninsula and bays that now make up Tonka Bay forms as the ice sheet retreats.
1852 – Signing of Treaty of Traverse des Sioux that opens up the Lake Minnetonka area to white settlement.
1852 –Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey explores Lake Minnetonka and officially names it “Minne” (Sioux for water) and “Tonka” (Sioux for big or strong).
1853 – Reverend Stephen Hull comes to the area. He creates the first narrows, “Hull’s Narrows,” located nearby present-day County Road 19 north of West Point Road. The Narrows allows boats to pass between Upper and Lower Lake Minnetonka.
1864 - Horticulturist Peter Gideon claimed in what would become Tonka Bay. Here he propagated the "Wealthy" apple, which can survive the harsh Minnesota winters, named for his wife Wealthy Hull.
1879 – The Lake Park Hotel is built as part of the Chautauqua movement.
1887 – Old Orchard House is built by John Finley Wilcox. He plants hundreds of acres of orchards that once stood alongside County Road 19.
1890 – Fred B. Snyder buys the 28-acre Clay Cliffe Estate for $56.
1901 – Tonka Bay incorporates in response to the need to provide services for its increasingly stable population. Wilcox becomes Tonka Bay’s first mayor.
1904 –Tonka Bay elementary school is built.
1908 – The Twin City Rapid Transit Company purchases the Lake Park Hotel and changes its name to the Tonka Bay Hotel. It closes in 1911.
1911 – The first bridge over the narrows is built in Tonka Bay.
1913 –Tonka Bay Marine is founded by the Westman Family.
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