Plymouth

Plymouth is the sixth largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Located 15 miles northwest of downtown Minneapolis in Hennepin County, the city is the third largest suburb of Minneapolis-Saint Paul, which is the sixteenth largest metropolitan area in the United States, with about 3.2 million residents. The population was 70,576 at the 2010 Census. The city was ranked number one in Money magazine's "America's Best Places to Live 2008" and ranked number eleven on their 2010 list. Plymouth is the hometown of Minnesota's U.S Senator Amy Klobuchar. Once named for Medicine Lake, the city's name... was chosen by Hennepin County Commissioners during the county's inception. Plymouth's history can be traced back to the pre-Columbian period, 1400-1500 AD. The original inhabitants were the Dakota. Their encampment was at the north end of Medicine Lake. The name Medicine Lake is derived from the Native American word "Mdewakan", meaning "Lake of the Spirit." The Dakota named the lake after a warrior overturned his canoe and his body was never recovered. Antoine LeCounte, a guide and explorer, was the first settler to this area. He arrived in 1848, but did not settle until 1852.
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