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<br /> <br />~ IMPORTANT <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS <br />Centervflle Oty Hall 429-3232 <br />1880 Main Street <br />CenteMIIe, MN 55038 <br />Oty Hall Fax 429-8629 <br />Centervflle Webstte www.c:entervlllemn.c:om <br />Oty e-maH address (march@centervlllernn.c:om <br />Mmu: <br />11m Swedberg 407-6222 <br />e-mail address mayacat@qwest.net <br />Council Members <br />linda Broussard Vtckers 426-3743 <br />Marl Nelson 407-0908 <br />e-maIl address sbI@mnInter.net <br />Mary Capra 653-1732 <br />e-mail address dcapIQ@ytsJ.com <br />Richard Travis 407-0018 <br />Public WorksfBldg. Insp. 429-4750 <br />ponce Department 911 <br />CemenniaI Labs Police DepaJ ,_" <br />Non-Emergency 763-784-2501 <br />Fire Department 911 <br />CemennialI.aIces rn Dislricl <br />Non-Emergency 651-784-7472 <br /> <br />DidYou KnOW??? <br /> <br />The (oIIow1nr ill(onntIrIon _ compiled fiom YlII'foas _ such as the MInnesotD H1stotlaII <br />Socfely cmd _ f1teIItIted by tile stsIf at WtII'JO NGture Center. <br />French fur traders first arrived in Minnesota during the mid- <br />1600's. In the Immediate years before the European settlers arri- <br />val, Centervllle was occupied by trapperS and Metis (those of <br />mixed Indian and French-Canactlan ancestry). Upon the Europe- <br />ans arrival, they met the Dakota Indians who hved in much of the <br />state and the Ojlbwe Indians who mast likely lived in the North- <br />eastern part of Minnesota. The Centerville area was their annual <br />hunting and fishing arounds. The Indians lived here because of <br />the abundance of food such as fish, geese. ducks and wild pme. <br />In addition, the marshy land provided wild rice in ~ce. At. <br />one time the marshes stretched westward to the extent that a <br />Dakota could travel by canoe from Centerville all the way to the <br />St. Croix River or to St. Paul far trading with white traders and <br />settlers. The Dakota evidendy abandoned their settlement to- <br />wards the end of the eighteenth century. <br />Over the next 200 years, both the Dakota and the Ojlbwe <br />moved south and west. In 1825, the state was divided by the <br />"Boundry between the Chippewa and the Sioux". This Invisible <br />boundary line was to help calm the fighting between the two <br />tribes. By the time Indian treaties were signed with the United <br />States government in the mid-1800's most Dakota lived an the <br />prairies of southern and western Minnesota and the Ojlbwe lived <br />all across northern Minnesota. At the time, central Minnesota <br />was known as a "contested zone" where both the Dakota and <br />the Ojibwe would hunt, but neither had villages. <br />On the basis of archeological finds such as arrowheads and <br />bones, early settlers called Centerville an "Indian Battle Mound" <br />indicating the presence of the Native Americans. Mounds still <br />exist today in the Centerville area and are proteCted from fur- <br />ther destruc:tIon. <br /> <br /> <br />CITY HALL HOURS <br />MONDAY - FRIDAY <br />8:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. <br /> <br />SOOW"'4)UI" atY I>I1de <br />'WIth <br />City Mert;handlseS <br /> <br /> <br />~IW <br />t:enternl1e9s r:oc <br /> <br /> <br />Produce <br />Your Own <br />Cable TV <br />Show! <br /> <br />The North Metro Media <br />Center is offering FREE televi- <br />sion production classes. <br />Classes are available to the gen- <br />eral public at no charge. <br />For further information, <br />please contact joel at North <br />Metro Channel 15 <br />at <br />763-780-8241 <br />extension 36. <br /> <br />Available at Oty Hall <br /> <br />