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Geotag (location) for: Manatako: 44º9'60"N;94º0'0"W
Mankato (MN) cityMankato är en stad i Blue Earth County, Nicollet County och Le Sueur County i delstaten Minnesota, USA med 39 309 invånare (2010). Mankato är administrativ huvudort (county seat) i Blue Earth County. Översikt
Manatako city i Blue Earth county i Minnesota i USA
Arkiv: Blue Earth County, Minnesota Genealogy
Historik
ÖvrigtA popular story says that the city was supposed to have been named Mahkato, but a typographical error by a clerk established the name as Mankato. According to Warren Upham, quoting historian Thomas Hughes of Mankato, ”The honor of christening the new city was accorded to Col. Robertson. He had taken the name from Nicollet's book, in which the French explorer compared the 'Mahkato' or Blue Earth River, with all its tributaries, to the water nymphs and their uncle in the German legend of Undine…No more appropriate name could be given the new city, than that of the noble river at whose mouth it is located.” While it is uncertain that the city was intended to be called Mahkato, the Dakota called the river Makato Osa Watapa (”the river where blue earth is gathered”). The Anglo settlers adapted that as ”Blue Earth River”. Frederick Webb Hodge, in the Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, said the town was named after the older of the two like-named chiefs of the Mdewakanton nation of the Santee Dakota, whose village stood on or near the site of the present town. |
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