Eden Prairie’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Eden Prairie. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Native Americans were the first to live in the area. Originally, the land was part of the Great Dakota Nation, but when the Ojibwe arrived from the Great Lakes region, the tribes began to clash over the land. The Ojibwe were armed with knives and guns traded to them by white settlers and fur traders, and after years of bloody warfare the Ojibwe had forced the Dakota to give up all their land east of the Mississippi River, and north of the Crow Wing River, land that did not include what is now Eden Prairie.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Eden Prairie’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Eden Prairie’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewFlailing Out Beans at Cummins Farm, 1900: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Eden Prairie
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Eden Prairie, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Flailing Out Beans at Cummins Farm (1900) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.