Maplewood, Minnesota

borders

city of

ghost town

Gladstone, Minnesota

historic landscape

Maplewood’s Historic Landscape (maplewoodmn.gov) 14,000 years ago Maplewood was covered by a mile-high glacier. As the climate warmed, the glacier retreated leaving the landforms we see today. Ancient pollen grains in lake sediment help scientists piece together a timeline of the plant communities that followed the glaciers.

history

History of Maplewood (maplewoodmn.gov) The written history of Maplewood begins about 165 years ago when European and French-Canadian settlers began farming in this area. Prior to this time, the land was inhabited by the Dakota Indians with occasional visits by French and English fur traders and explorers. The landscape was a mix of scrub oak and prairie with many wetlands and lakes.
In 1850, a group of families ventured from St. Paul along an Indian trail that is now Hazelwood Street. They were the Bells, Caseys, Conlins, and Vincents. At today’s County Road C, they turned to the east and began to build their log cabins. The sound of their axes alerted the Dakota who had a hunting camp nearby and thought the land was still theirs. The Dakota asked them to leave and the newcomers quickly retraced their steps.

lake

Lake Phalen

map

Ramsey County from the Digitized State of Minnesota Plat Book – 1916

moment

People fishing at Wakefield Park drain

nature reserve

Maplewood Nature Center

oak savanna

In the mid-1800s much of Maplewood was oak savanna. Look for a remnant of the savanna on the east side of Wakefield Lake, with mature oaks stretching broad limbs over a groundcover of prairie grasses.

openstreetmap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/136631

parks

photographs

random

roadway

Hazelwood Street

school district

Independent School District 622

suburb of

Saint Paul, Minnesota

tags

city

Wakefield Park

Start of the trail to Wakefield Park drain

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q990856

Wikipedia

Maplewood, Minnesota (Wikipedia) Maplewood is a city in Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 42,088 at the 2020 census. Maplewood is ten minutes’ drive from downtown Saint Paul. It stretches along the northern and eastern borders of Saint Paul.