Sunday, October 27, 2013

On This Date in Minnesota History: October 27

October 27, 1849 – Itasca County, Minn., was established on this date, taking its “name from Itasca lake, which was named by [Henry Rowe] Schoolcraft in his expedition to this source of the Mississippi in 1832.”

Upham, Warren; Minnesota Geographic Names, Their Origin and Historic Significance; Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minn., 1969); p. 252.




Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

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