Shakopee, Minnesota Shakopee, Minnesota Downtown Shakopee Downtown Shakopee Official seal of Shakopee, Minnesota Seal Official logo of Shakopee, Minnesota Location of the town/city of Shakopeewithin Scott County, Minnesota Location of the town/city of Shakopee Shakopee (/ k pi / shah-k -pee) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Scott County, Minnesota.
Sited on the south bank bend of the Minnesota River, Shakopee and close-by suburbs comprise the southwest portion of Minneapolis-Saint Paul, the sixteenth-largest urbane region in the United States, with 3.3 million citizens .
The populace of Shakopee was 37,076 at the 2010 census. The river bank's Shakopee Historic District contains burial mounds assembled by prehistoric cultures.
In the 18th century, Chief Shakopee of the Mdewakanton Dakota established his village on the east end of this region near the water.
Shakopee boomed as a commerce exchange site between river and rail at Murphy's Landing.
Once an isolated town/city in the Minnesota River Valley, by the 1960s the economy of Shakopee was tied to that of the expanding urbane area.
Murphy's near Shakopee" One of these bands was led in the 18th century by the first Chief Shakopee.
The initial Shakopee acquired his name when his wife, White Buffalo Woman, gave birth to sextuplet boys.
The Ojibwa country began pushing into Dakota territory and reportedly Shakopee's band skirmished in 1768 and 1775. Shakopee died in 1827 at Fort Snelling.
The second man to be given the name Chief Shakopee was his adopted Ojibwa son, Eaglehead (b.
The Shakopee band lived in summer bark lodges and winter tipis.
By the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, the Skogey Tribe ceded territory in 1851 and many relocated to Chief Shakopee II's village.
Its leadership passed to Shakopee II's son Eatoka (b.
Descendants of the Mdewakanton Dakota placed 572 acres (2.31 km2) of Shakopee territory into tribal territory trust with the Department of Interior in 2003. Holmes established a trading post west of the Dakota and platted Shakopee Village in 1854, titled after Chief Shakopee II. The town/city quickly grew, incorporating in 1857.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 29.32 square miles (75.94 km2); 28.01 square miles (72.55 km2) is territory and 1.31 square miles (3.39 km2) is water. Highway 169 and County Highway 101 are two of the chief routes in Shakopee.
Highway 169 and close-by State Highway 13 connect Shakopee to the rest of the Minneapolis Saint Paul region.
County Highway 101 serves as a primary east west connector route of historic downtown Shakopee.
Shakopee Public Schools include five elementary schools, one Sixth Grade Center, two junior high schools and one senior high school.
Shakopee Senior High Shakopee West Junior High Shakopee East Junior High Shakopee Junior Highs are known as Shakopee Junior High East and Shakopee Junior High West.
Shakopee East was formerly known as the Middle School, which taught grades 6 and 7.
Shakopee East Junior High now teaches grades 7-9.
Shakopee Junior High West, formerly known as Shakopee Junior High, previously taught grades 8 and 9, but now, like Shakopee East, Shakopee West teaches grades 7-9.
Shakopee High School has grades 10 through 12.
Shakopee is also the locale of the Shakopee Area Catholic Schools.
The town/city of Shakopee also has a ground of the Globe University/Minnesota School of Business, a private longterm position college offering programs in business, community sciences, legal sciences, multimedia and design and knowledge technology.
Shakopee is positioned in Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, represented by John Kline, a Republican, scoring 2.8% progressive on a range of issues and 88% conservative based on 2006 House votes. Located in Shakopee is a mostly new soccer complex that has a burgeoning program.
Jamal Abu-Shamala, a Jordanian-American basketball player for the Minnesota Golden Gophers, was born in Shakopee and went to the high school.
Christopher Straub, a contestant on Project Runway (season 6), lives in Shakopee.
Shakopee is the locale of a several attractions that are well-recognized throughout the state and even nationally.
Valleyfair is a family amusement park positioned just outside the Shakopee downtown on County Highway 101.
The Landing is an 88-acre (360,000 m2) historic village positioned on the Minnesota River just outside downtown Shakopee.
Minnesota Renaissance Festival attracts visitors from all over the world and is positioned south of Shakopee on U.S.
Historic downtown Shakopee features various small town boutiques and restaurants, an old fashioned bakery, Turtle's 1890 Social Center, riverside concerts, and summertime bi-weekly classic car shows.
Shakopee was mentioned in the 2006 film Cars when the character Minny said she once went to Shakopee for "Crazy Days".
The voice actress, Edie Mc - Clurg, ad-libbed the city's name into the script. Shakopee does jubilate "Derby Days" titled for the horse racing tradition of the city's history, and there may have been a predecessor to it called "Crazy Days".
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart reported on the woman's prison in Shakopee.
On March 3, 2012, the Lindsay Lohan episode of Saturday Night Live featured a skit on a airways broadcast based out of Shakopee, with Taran Killam, Bobby Moynihan and Lindsay Lohan as the DJ's, and Vanessa Bayer as the news correspondent.
Bayer refers to Eagle Creek and Red Oak Elementary Schools, as well as the Shakopee Middle School.
"SMSC To Conduct Prescribed Burn at Shakopee Memorial Park" (PDF).
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community.
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