Hassan

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Hassan MN 55374
United States
45° 11' 12.4548" N, 93° 35' 28.6584" W
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Hassan is in Hennepin County HASSAN Township, first settled in 1854, organized April 3, 1860, received its name from the Dakota word chanhasan, meaning "the sugar maple tree" (chan, tree; hasan, from haza, the whortleberry or huckleberry, also blueberries; that is, the tree having similarly sweet sap). Carver County has a township named Chanhassen, south of Lake Minnetonka, settled two years earlier and organized in 1858. Not to conflict with that name, the syllable meaning tree was here omitted. A post office operated 1866-1904. From: Upham, Warren. Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, First edition 1920. Third Edition 2001. Print.