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, Page 2 March 200 I Centervi/le: Preserving the Past while Focusing on the Future ~ IMPORTANT TELEPHONE NUMBERS Centerville City Hall 429-3232 ] 880 Main Street Centerville, MN 55038 City Hall Fax 429-8629 Centerville Website www.centervillemn.com City e-mail address jmarch@centervillemn.com Mayor Tim Swedberg 407-6222 e-mail address mayacat@qwest.net Council Members Linda Broussard Vickers 426-3743 Mari Nelson 407 -0908 e-mail address sbi@mninter.net Mary Capra 653-1732 e-mail address 'dcapra@~s~.~~t \.OILo. Richard Travis 407-0018 Public Works/Bldg. Insp. 429-4750 Police Department 911 Centennial Lakes Po/ice Department Non-Emergency 763-784-2501 Fire Department 911 Centennial Lakes Fire District Non-Emergency 784-7472 CITY HALL HOURS MONDAY - FRIDAY Help Keep Centerville a Safe Community Report any and all suspicious activity by calling 9 , , . The Centennial Lakes Police De- partment will provide information on how you can protect your property and yourself. Please call the non-emergency number (763) 784-250 I for details. ~ER ....&e' Did You Know??? The following information was compiled from various resources such as the Minnesota Historical Society and was prepared by the staff at Wargo Nature Center. French fur traders first arrived to Minnesota in the mid- 1600's. In the immediate years before the European settlers arri- val, Centerville was occupied by trappers and Metis (those of mixed Indian and French-Canadian ancestry). Upon the Europe- ans arrival, they met the Dakota Indians who lived in much of the state and the Ojibwe Indians who most likely lived in the North- eastern part of Minnesota. The Centerville area was their annual hunting and fishing grounds. The Indians lived here because of the abundance of food such as fish, geese, ducks and wild game. In addition, the marshy land provided wild rice in abundance. At one time the marshes stretched westward to the extent that a Dakota could travel by canoe from Centerville all the way to the St. Croix River or to St. Paul for trading with white traders and settlers. The Dakota evidently abandoned their settlement to- wards the end of the eighteenth century. Over the next 200 years, both the Dakota and the Ojibwe moved south and west. In 1825, the state was divided by the "Boundry between the Chippewa and the Sioux". This invisible boundary line was to help calm the fighting between the two tribes. By the time Indian treaties were signed with the United States government in the mid-1800's most Dakota lived on the prairies of southern and western Minnesota and the Ojibwe lived all across northern Minnesota. At the time, central Minnesota was known as a "contested zone" where both the Dakota and the Ojibwe would hunt, but neither had villages. On the basis of archeological finds such as arrowheads and bones, early settlers called Centerville an "Indian Battle Mound" indicating the presence of the Native Americans. Mounds still exist today in the Centerville area and are protected from fur- ther destruction. Sh()W y()ur- City Vr-ide with City Mert::handise% Golf Shirt $20 Sweatshirt $25 T--Shirt $12 Coffee Mug $5 Hat $10 ~p()nn)red hy Centen'ille~s ~[)C Available at City HaJJ I.L Produce Your Own Cable TV Show! North Metro Cable TV is offering FREE TV Production Classes. Classes are available to the general public at no charge. For further information, please contact Joel at North Metro Channel 15 at 763-780-8241 extension 36.