{"id":643,"date":"2018-11-20T18:46:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T18:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2018-12-12T19:03:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T19:03:30","slug":"lake-minnetonka-usgs-maps-2-new-old-maps-1907-and-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/lake-minnetonka-usgs-maps-2-new-old-maps-1907-and-1957\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Minnetonka Minnesota – USGS Maps – 2 “New” Old maps 1907 and 1958"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have just created two “new” old topographic maps of Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota. It’s a beautiful lake, enjoyed as a summer playground for many years. It’s a short distance from the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
\nWe took portions of two original USGS sheets, matched them together and added a border and title to make attractive wall decorations.<\/p>\n

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\nThe oldest is the 1907 map, made in the steamboat and railroad era. While older USGS maps don’t have much detail, their simplicity and “clean” look makes them quite attractive.
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The 1958 map is much more accurate and detailed, and is richly colored.\"\"<\/a>          \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are 1907 and 1958 views of Wayzata Bay, the large settlement on the main road from Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

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These two closeups show how a swampy lowland in 1907 has been filled and drained to make waterways for boat slips by 1958.<\/p>\n

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\n“Island Park” is a busy development by 1958, while in 1907 it had one barely passable dirt road an a few cottages on the lakeshore.  Note that, except for Island Park, most place names are unchanged.<\/p>\n

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The busy settlement of Deephaven was just beginning in 1907. In fact it did not have its modern name when our oldest map was made. But it was a “deep haven” for steamboat visits.<\/p>\n

Prints of these maps and other Minnesota lake topo maps can be purchased at our website shop.old-maps.com.  <\/a><\/p>\n

We also have several other historical maps of Lake Minnetonka<\/a>.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have just created two “new” old topographic maps of Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota. It’s a beautiful lake,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-georgia","category-uncategorized","content-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}