The United States Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, sent the Army to survey the area that would surround Fort Snelling in 1817.
 Calhoun had also authorized the construction of Fort Snelling, one of the earliest American settlements in the state.
 The surveyors named the water body "Lake Calhoun" in his honor, and the Fort Snelling Military Reservation survey map of Lt.
James L. Thompson in 1839 shows that name for the lake.
The United States Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, sent the Army to survey the area that would surround Fort Snelling in 1817.  Calhoun had also authorized the construction of Fort Snelling, one of the earliest American settlements in the state.  The surveyors named the water body "Lake Calhoun" in his honor, and the Fort Snelling Military Reservation survey map of Lt. James L. Thompson in 1839 shows that name for the lake.
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