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.
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.
Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin. This place was called Buena Vista from the Mexican battlefield; earlier it was called Willow River from the river that runs into the St. Croix at this place. In 1852, the county board of Supervisors gave it its present name from the City of Hudson, New York; that was named for Henry Hudson, the navigator, who also gave his name to the river on which the City of Hudson, New York is located.
