Through this thread, it appears that many many schools in Minneapolis were named after women who were in the educational system (this includes Fuller, apparently the neighborhood I grew up in, which my mother informed me this weekend was named after Margaret Fuller Elementary School, which was torn down before I was born).
And it looks like Kingfield in indeed named after MLK. What a proud legacy! Cara Letofsky Seward Steve Brandt wrote: >Here the short answer to the question I posed earlier this week: what neighborhood >names were used by the city in 1962 for these areas? > >Jordan: Lowell (after the now-demoed school) >Lynnhurst: Burroughs (after the still-extant school) >South Central/North Bryant area: Warrington (after the now-demoed school) >Near North: Grant and Hall neighborhoods (after schools) > >The only person to get all these right was Minneapolis public librarian JoEllen >Haugo. She adds these details from the library's collection: > >Jordan: Named after the junior high which was named after Charles Morison >Jordan, Superintendent Emeritus of the Mpls Public Schools. The school was >erected in 1922. A map of "Near North Community" from an article in the >Minneapolis Star 12/2/1965 calls the area Lowell. Lowell Elementary was >named after James R. Lowell the American poet, essayist and diplomat. The >school was erected 1893 at 1900 Willow Ave. North. > >Lynnhurst. According to the last in a series of articles written by Abe >Altrowitz for the Minneapolis Star, 2/28/56 (the city's centennial year), >the area was once called "the Colony" for a group of nine families that >shared "one telephone and three cows." A development company lost the land >in the Panic of 1893. The area remained isolated for more than a decade >"meanwhile adopting the name Lynnhurst because of the prevalence of Linden >trees. Not until 1903 did Lynnhurst become the geographic entity it is today >under a plat filed by Clinton Morrison and development by David C. Bell." In >the 1965 Southwest Community Analysis and Action Recommendations of the >City, the area was called Burroughs after the elementary school which were >both named after John Burroughs the American naturalist and author. The >school was erected 1926. > >North Bryant-south Central. Apparently a combination of parts of two >neighborhoods which adjoin each other. Central named for the old Central >High School, erected in 1913 and Bryant named for William Cullen Bryant and >American poet and journalist for whom the junior high school was named >after. In the 1965 Powderhorn Community Analysis and Action Recommendations >that area was called Warrington. It was bounded by E 36th St on the north, >E 42d St on the south, Chicago Ave on the east and 2d Ave S (Freeway) on the >west. Warrington neighborhood and the elementary School were named after >Alice Warrington. She was principal of Bryant Elementary from 1895-1925. >The school was erected 1898. > >Near North according to the "Near North Community" map (Minneapolis Star >12/2/1956)-the area now called Near North was comprised primarily of two >neighborhoods - Grant and Hall. It was called Grant neighborhood before >1962. Grant was named after the elementary school which was named after >Ulysses S. Grant, military general and 18th President of U.S.A. The school >building was erected in 1889. > >Hall. The elementary school was erected in 1960 and named after Elizabeth >L. Hall, Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Education, Minneapolis >Public Schools from 1911 to 1934. > >Old Highland. There is also an area within Near North called Old Highland, >bounded by Broadway on the north, Plymouth on the south, Aldrich on the east >and Girard on the west (Star Tribune 7/10/91). It is within what was the >Hall neighborhood. We haven't found any definition of the name but in a Star >Tribune 4/22/95 article neighborhood resident Charlie Nelson said that "the >neighborhood as the first rise of land above Bassett Creek. Before the >creek was shuttled underground in the 1910s, it was surrounded by natural >open spaces. The neighborhood also overlooked Oak Lake, which was drained >and filled for industrial use around the turn of the century. The Farmer's >Market now stand on part of the old lake bed." > >King Field. On the map in the 1965 Southwest Community Analysis and Action >Recommendations it was called Nicollet Field. A city park, which had its' >name changed in 1968 and was dedicated to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther >King on 6/21/70. >Steve Brandt >Star Tribune >_______________________________________ >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 > > _______________________________________ 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
