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Sarah Wakefield Lake (and Wakefield Park) (maplewoodmn.gov) One of Maplewood’s most famous residents arrived around 1874. Sarah (Brown) Wakefield purchased a tract of land on the western shore of the lake that is named after her.

Granite (Wikipedia) Granite (/ˈɡrænɪt/ GRAN-it) is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground. It is common in the continental crust of Earth, where it is found in igneous intrusions. These range in size from dikes only a few centimeters across to batholiths exposed over hundreds of square kilometers.