Edina West Upper Division - Windigo Yearbook (Edina, MN)

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PAGE 16: UPPER LEFT: Used in the early 1900's this classroom is located m the old Cahill school. UPPER RIGHT Edina Catholics attend a mass around the year 1920 in the old St. Patrick s church, which was located on 70th Street and Cahill Road. MIDDLE LEFT: A “covered wagon school bus picks up children from the Morningside district to attend the Edina School. around 1917 MIDDLE RIGHT: Located where the Edina City Hall now stands, the first Edina School held classes for elementary students from 1864 until 1926. LOWER RIGHT: A prominent citizen of Edina expresses his opinion during one of the council meetings held in the old Cahill school in the 1920's. PAGE 17: UPPER: The Baird house, located on 50th Street, was built in 1886 and is one ol the oldest houses still standing in Edina MIDDLE. The old Grange Hall, now located in the Frank Tupa historical park on Eden Avenue, is still used for public meetings LOWER: The Edina mill, which stood where Williams Park is now located, was in operation until 1915. 16 EDINA HISTORY 1776 — Declaration ol Independence

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Drummer first in area A drummer from Fort Snelling was the first white man to see the area called Edina. His name was Joseph Renshaw Brown and he made a trail along Minnehaha Creek through Edina to Lake Minnetonka. Shortly after 1850, a group of people came from Ireland and settled on the military land owned by Fort Snelling. One of these Irish settlers built Edina’s historic mill in 1856. In 1859 the mill was bought by Jonathan Grimes. The mill operated constantly during the Civil War in order to supply flour to the troops at Fort Snelling. Andrew Craik purchased the mill in 1859 and named it Edina Mill in memory of his boyhood home in Edinburgh, Scotland. This was the first time the name Edina was used. The earliest schools built in Edina were Cahill and one at Code's Corner (Normandale and Valley View Road). Edina was a part of Richfield in the 1880's, but soon Richfield began taking money in taxes and not giving the Edina area the benefits from the taxes. The community decided to break away from Richfield and form their own town. With the secession, came a severe disagreement over the name of the village. The Scottish people wanted the name Edina, but the Irish promoted the title Kilarney Lakes. There were many debates and, when a vote was finally taken, the Scots won by a narrow margin. Thus, the community became the Village of Edina on December 18.1888. 1777 — Article of Confederation