I'd like to offer an alternate version to David Brauer's understanding of the King Field/Kingfield confusion and the origins of the name. Although Planning, not MCDA or its predecessor, chose to spell it King Field, the people who incorporated the Kingfield Neighborhood Association around 1985 spelled it Kingfield. I once inquired about changing it to conform with the city spelling, but people felt it wasn't worth whatever expense or bother it would take to amend the name officially. I may be wrong but I doubt that the neighborhood originally was known as King Field when the neighborhood names were designated in the late 50s or 1960s. The park name then was Nicollet Field, and the renaming in honor of Martin Luther King didn't occur until 1969 or 1970. But if the King name for the neighborhood predated this, it would have been after Col. William King, who owned the Lyndale Farmstead that now hosts a park, the onetime home of the park superintendent, and various park maintenance and police operations. King's Highway is named after him.
Greg Luce asked when Old Highland became Hawthorne neighborhood. Old Highland is south of Broadway, and a subset of Near North neighborhood although it has its own identity. Hawthorne is north of Broadway. Steve Brandt Kingfield A good place to live even if we can't agree on spelling _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
