Lake Itasca
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Lake Itasca is a small glacial lake, approximately 4.7 square kilometres in area. It is located in Itasca State Park, in south-eastern Clearwater County, in the Headwaters area of north-central Minnes
The primary source of the Mississippi River on the edge of Lake Itasca
Rayleigh scattering over Lake Itasca, June 2023
View of Lake Itasca, MN, July 2015
Henry Schoolcraft
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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississi
Lake Itasca
…explorers in the area were French Canadian and they named the lake Lac Labiche (Doe Lake, often mistranslated as Elk Lake). The name was later changed by Henry Schoolcraft to "Itasca", coined from a combination of the dog Latin phrase veritas caput (intended to mean "true head [of the Mississippi]"). It is one of several…
Photo of Henry Schoolcraft in 1855
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in 1884 engraving