Location
Mahtomedi is in Washington County MAHTOMEDI, a city in section 20 of Grant Township, on the northeast shore of White Bear Lake, was platted in July 1883, by the Mahtomedi Assembly of the Chautauqua Association. This is "the Dakota name of White Bear lake" (from mato, the "white or polar bear," or matohota, the "grizzly bear," with mde, "a lake"). It was incorporated as a village August 14, 1931; its post office operated in 1884 and 1888-89, became Grant 1889-1904, was again named Mahtomedi in 1904, and was discontinued in 1954; it had a station of the Northern Pacific Railroad. From: Upham, Warren. Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, First edition 1920. Third Edition 2001. Print.
