Chaska, Minnesota This article is about the town/city of Chaska, Minnesota.
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Chaska, Minnesota Buildings in downtown Chaska Buildings in downtown Chaska Location of the town/city of Chaskawithin Carver County, Minnesota Location of the town/city of Chaska Website Chaska, Minnesota Chaska is a town/city in Carver County, Minnesota, United States.
Guardian Angels Catholic Church in Chaska, assembled with the characteristic yellow Chaska brick.
Although the Indian mounds positioned in Chaska City Square indicate the immediate region was inhabited years before 1769, that's the year Chaska's recorded history began.
Among the earliest was Thomas Andrew Holmes who, in August 1851, claimed a 20-acre (81,000 m2) clearing as the Chaska townsite.
The name "Chaska" is derived from a Dakota word often given as a name to the first born male child. Records show that David L.
In the same year, assembly began on the initial Carver County Courthouse positioned where the postal service and Klein - Bank now stand in downtown Chaska.
Chaska was incorporated as a village in 1871 and, by special legislative charter, as a town/city in 1891.
By the 1880s, as a result of the clay resources, Chaska was a grow brick manufacturing center.
National polls titled Chaska the eighth-best town/city in the United States in 2007 and 20th best in 2009. In September, 2016, Chaska hosted the Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National Golf Course.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 17.77 square miles (46.02 km2), of which, 16.97 square miles (43.95 km2) is territory and 0.80 square miles (2.07 km2) is water. The downtown portion of Chaska lies on the Minnesota River.
Chaska Boulevard (Old Highway 212), Pioneer Trail, U.S.
Highway 212, and Minnesota State Highway 41 are four of the chief routes in Chaska.
Climate data for Chaska, Minnesota Chaska Community Center Chaska: 1769 - 2004 Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Chaska's populace averaged about 2,000 and the nature of the town/city remained unchanged.
The expansion of the seven county urbane region reached Chaska in the 1960s.
The Jonathan "new town" evolution inside Chaska brought new land, new jobs and new citizens to the community.
Dozens of undivided industries have positioned to Chaska and continue to do so; residentiary assembly adds 300 to 400 new homes per year; commercial company continues to grew offering a range of retail and service opportunities to its residents; redevelopment of commercial areas in the downtown began in the 1980s and still continues.
Although the improve has seen much growth, evolution regulations and sound planning have ensured Chaska's small sense of improve and the preservation of its rich heritage.
In early 2005, the town/city of Chaska took in the remaining portion of Chaska Township.
A new spike in the populace is expected after the assembly of the Highway 212 freeway passing through the heart of Chaska, serving as a fast, direct, link to the heart of the Twin Cities.
This freeway will include a bus rapid transit route serving Chaska with fast, efficient mass transit, along with convenient access to the Light Rail fitness which will soon connect the southwest suburbs to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul.
Over the years, Chaska has also been the place of birth of a several well known products and companies, including Softsoap and Nordic - Track. Chaska City Hall on City Hall Plaza.
Chaska is governed through a town/city council/city administrator system.
The town/city council formulates town/city policy and the town/city administrator and staff are responsible for town/city administration.
Chaska is positioned in Minnesota's 3rd congressional district, represented by Erik Paulsen, a Republican, who is a 1983 graduate of Chaska High School.
The elementary schools are La Academia Bilingual School, Jonathan Elementary, Clover Ridge Elementary, and Chaska Elementary.
Middle schools endorsed by District 112 are Pioneer Ridge Middle School, and Chaska Middle School East and Chaska Middle School West.
Chaska High School and Chanhassen High School are the two of the city's three high schools.
In the 1996 film Fargo, written by Minnesota's own Joel and Ethan Coen, Chaska was featured in two of the supporting characters, real life Tony Denman (who played Scotty Lundegaard), a Chanhassen native, attended Chaska High School, and a young prostitute (played by Larissa Kokernot) who claimed not only to have serviced Carl Showalter (played by Steve Buscemi), but also to be from Chaska, Minnesota.
Chaska was also featured in the film Drop Dead Gorgeous.
The scene in the furniture store takes place at the old Schniedermen's Furniture store in downtown Chaska.
Johnny Cash refers to Chaska in his prominent song "I've Been Everywhere" as a place he has visited .
Cheryl Strayed briefly lived in Chaska amid her early life, and mentions so in her prominent book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Found at 516 N Pine St. in downtown Chaska, the mustache is nearly 12 feed wide, and took over 300 hours to print. Chaska Town Course "City of Chaska Minnesota Minnesota".
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