Editing Edina, Minnesota (section)

===Naming===
After the decision was made to form a new village, debate ensued about the new village's name. Several town meetings were held in the [[Minnehaha Grange Hall]], during which the names Hennepin Park, Westfield, and Edina were suggested. Minutes taken by Henry F. Brown, a farmer and future owner (1889) of the [[Edina Mill]], are summarized as follows:

{{blockquote|A long debate ensued with regard to the name by which the corporation shall be called. A motion was made and passed to reconsider the vote taken at the previous meeting of the name of the proposed village, Westfield. Another motion was then made by Andrew Craik to call the proposed village Edina (upon moving to the township in 1869 from Edinburgh, he bought and renamed the mill to the Edina Mill). Before the motion could be decided, James A. Bull, a member of the five person committee, made another motion to adjourn, which was seconded by the majority. However, the chairman of the meeting called this motion out of order, at which time disorder ensued with Baird, Wilson, Ryan and Bull declaring their intent to no longer serve as members of the committee if a gag law was to prevail. During this heated moment the meeting became somewhat boisterous until, after a few minutes order was restored. Seeing that no more work could be done at this time, a final motion was made and passed to reschedule the meeting to a future date.<ref name="From Settlement to Suburb">''From Settlement to Suburb: The History of Edina, Minnesota'' by Paul Hesterman, Published by the Edina Historical Society, 1988</ref>}}

At the next meeting, the name Edina was chosen with a vote of 47 for and 42 against.<ref name="City of Edina" />

A prevailing myth about the decision to name the new village Edina is that two opposing communities—the [[Irish people|Irish]] Cahill community and the Scottish Mill community—fought about whether to give the community an Irish name (Killarney Lakes) or a Scottish one (Edina). But the [[1860 United States census|1860 census]] indicates that there were no Scottish people in Edina in 1860, and only a couple were present at the time of Edina's founding (1888).<ref name="settler-nationality" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Edina's Name |url=https://www.edinamn.gov/1016/Edinas-Name |website=edinamn.gov}}</ref>

The name "Edina" may also come from the language of the nearby [[Dakota people|Dakota]] tribe. The word ''{{langx|dak|Idéna}}'' means "to catch fire."<ref name="dakota name">{{cite journal |last1=Daniels |first1=Karen |date=January 1963 |title=Ojibway and Dakota Place Names in Minnesota |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/trafficeng/signing/docs/mn-archaeologist-place-names.pdf |journal=The Minnesota Archaeologist |volume=25 |issue= 1|pages=17 |doi= |access-date=December 22, 2022}}</ref>