This map is the original town site map of Minneapolis, platted for John H. Stevens and Franklin Steele by Charles W. Christmas, the first surveyor of Hennepin County. Christmas’s decision to lay the streets out running roughly parallel to the river…

This map is featured in a Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education (MAGE) curriculum podcast!

To view in Google Earth, click the kmz…

This map is featured in a Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education (MAGE) curriculum…