Test your knowledge of Plymouth city history.
Photo by:
Franzi Schneider-Krumpus
Additional historical information is available at plymouthhistoricalsociety.org and in Images of America Plymouth by Sarah Winans and Natasha Thoreson.
- Which tribe of Native Americans were Plymouth’s original inhabitants and had an encampment at the north end of Medicine Lake?
- Who was the first settler to the area?
- Who was Parker’s Lake named after?
- On June 1, 1858, Plymouth’s name was briefly changed to …
- What year did Plymouth open its first school?
- How much did Plymouth pay volunteers to enlist during the Civil War?
- By 1880, what was the town’s population?
- What school was resident Jonas Howe instrumental in founding?
- What type of water recreation craze hit the Minneapolis area, including Plymouth, in the 1900s?
- Ice blocks were harvested from lakes, including Bass and Medicine lakes. How long could a block last in storage?
- When did Plymouth erect its first water tower?
- What year did Plymouth receive its first traffic light?
- When did Plymouth have its first free-standing library?
- Got ice? When did the Plymouth Ice Center open?
- What is the city’s largest employer?
Scroll down to see the answers!
- The Dakota
- Antoine LeCounte
- The Parkers, of course!
- Medicine Lake (For reasons unknown, the new name didn’t stick, and the town’s been known as Plymouth ever since.)
- In 1858, a 14 by 14 log cabin school housed 26 students, ages 5 to 19 years old.
- $25
- 1,074
- The Minnesota State School for the Deaf in Faribault (Cora, his daughter, was in the school’s first graduating class.)
- Canoeing
- Ice was stored in buildings insulated with hay and sawdust. A well-maintained site could keep ice for up to a year.
- 1970
- 1972
- 1995
- 1996
- Wayzata Public Schools