Editing New Brighton, Minnesota (section)

==History==
In the mid 18th century, [[Mdewakanton]] [[Sioux|Dakota]] tribes lived in the vicinity of New Brighton's [[marsh]]y [[lake]]s, harvesting [[wild rice]]. The Dakota eventually settled a village near Long Lake at [[Rice Creek (Mississippi River)|Rice Creek]] and a smaller encampment just east of Silver Lake Road on 3rd Street NW. Immigrants from [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]] and [[France]] settled a small village in 1858 that included a general store, a school, and a mission church. As railroads were established in the area, millers in [[Minneapolis]] formed the Minneapolis Stockyards and Packing Company in 1888. The company supplied home, agriculture, and business needs. The venture included Minneapolis figures such as streetcar magnate [[Thomas Lowry]], flour millers [[John Sargent Pillsbury]], Senator [[William D. Washburn]], ex-Minneapolis Mayor W.H. Eustis, and industrialist W.H. Dunwoody. As the village grew in prominence, it was incorporated on January 20, 1891.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.new-brighton.mn.us/index.asp?Type=B_LIST&SEC=%7B2790088B-DA5F-4FAC-955D-4A608A855E2F%7D |title=New Brighton City History |publisher=City of New Brighton |year=2006}}</ref> The city was given the name New Brighton after Brighton, Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite book|last=Upham |first=Warren |title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance |url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog |year=1920 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n456 437]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.new-brighton.mn.us/index.asp?Type=B_LIST&SEC=%7B2790088B-DA5F-4FAC-955D-4A608A855E2F%7D |title=New Brighton -- City History |website=www.ci.new-brighton.mn.us |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923152237/http://www.ci.new-brighton.mn.us/index.asp?Type=B_LIST&SEC={2790088B-DA5F-4FAC-955D-4A608A855E2F} |archive-date=September 23, 2006}}</ref> Each August, a city festival, Stockyard Days, celebrates this heritage at Long Lake Park.

As the streetcar system expanded in the early 20th century, immigrant and first-generation groups from [[Eastern Europe]] and [[Germany]] began moving outward from [[Northeast Minneapolis]]. New Brighton and St. Anthony residents also continue to celebrate this ethnic heritage with an annual ''Polka Dance Party'' which began in 1892.

In the 1920s, a local farmer said he heard a rumor that bootleggers had buried gold bars along Long Lake's eastern shore. The rumor spread and launched a mini "gold rush" along Long Lake to find the treasure.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}