Minneapolis Real Estate

GOLDEN VALLEY REAL ESTATE

 

Golden Valley is bounded on the east by Minneapolis, and is the corporate headquarters of General Mills. Golden Valley is also the home of the Perpich Center for Arts Education and Breck School. The population was 20,281 at the 2000 census.

 

Major employers in the City include:
General Mills
Tennant
Honeywell International
UnitedHealth Group

 

Even though the population of Golden Valley is only around 20,000, more than 30,000 people work in Golden Valley. This is because of the presence of large employers such as General Mills, Honeywell, and Tennant.

 

Golden Valley is home to the Minneapolis-based Skatepark 3rd Lair. It also has the Golden Valley Little League and Phoenix Soccer club.

 

The Village of Golden Valley was incorporated on Dec 16, 1886. During its early years, Golden Valley was an agricultural community of only a few hundred residents, full of farms, mills, and dairies. Residential development began after the Electric Luce Line Railroad was cut through the village in 1912. Between 1910 and 1940, Golden Valley's population increased from 692 to 2,040. More residential development followed industry's discovery of Golden Valley after World War II, and the village continued to grow. It became a City in 1972. 

 
The story of how Golden Valley got its name has several variations; however, references to grain outnumber those to wildflowers. The most recent explanation, published in 1986, cites daffodils as the inspiration. According to Golden Valley: A History of a Minnesota City, 1886-1986, the city was named by William Varner, one of the area's first settlers. Upon arriving at St Anthony Falls in 1854, Varner headed west to find a home site and eventually came upon "a hill so high that he thought it was a mountain. He climbed the hill and looking down he could see the whole valley lush and green dotted with golden daffodils. In the distance he could see a lake shining in the sunlight and he said, 'This is my valley, my Golden Valley.' " That hill, now much eroded by nature and humans, is currently home to the Golden Valley Country Club.

 

Backtrack to May 29, 1958. An unattributed article in the Suburban Press claimed the name Golden Valley "came about because of the yellow of the cowslips, goldenrod, and sunflowers which covered the hills in 1852 when the first pioneers settled in the valley." As soon as he read that article, 75-year-old Robert Moser, lifelong resident and son of early homesteader Carl Moser, called the paper to set the record straight. He said "it was wheat, acres of it glimmering in a summer sun, that put the word 'golden' in Golden Valley."