On This Date in Minnesota History: June 30

June 30, 1908 – Montevideo, the county seat of Chippewa County, Minn., became a city on this date. It was platted on May 25, 1870, and incorporated as a village on March 4, 1879. Its Latin name means “from the mountain I see,” or “Mount of Vision,” as settlers were “so delighted by the wonderful view gained from the heights overlooking the interlocking valleys of the Minnesota and Chippewa rivers at that point.”
Upham, Warren; Minnesota Geographic Names, Their Origin and Historic Significance; Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minn., 1969); pp. 104-105.