On This Date in Minnesota History: January 5

January 5, 1892 – “Madison Lake town site was incorporated on this date, including the earlier platted Point Pleasant town site, and became known as the Village of Madison Lake.

Madison Lake remained a ‘village’ until the 1980's when the State of Minnesota classified it as a city of the fourth class.”¹

The town was named for the adjoining lake, which had been named by the government surveyors in honor of James Madison, fourth president of the United States.²

¹http://www.ci.madison-lake.mn.us/index.asp?SEC=E16F6E76-FCF6-42D5-83F2-375B7F406EFE&Type=B_BASIC

²Upham, Warren; Minnesota Geographic Names, Their Origin and Historic Significance; Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minn., 1969); p. 61.

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