Local lore in Oneota, Duluth, Minnesota

• The name is older than the city. Oneota was one of the townsites platted at the head of the lake in 1856 and 1857, most of which were eventually swallowed by Duluth. The grid on the old blocks is that plat.
• The name is an archaeological term, not a local one. Oneota is a label scholarship applied to a precontact culture of the upper Midwest, attached to this ground by the people platting it.
• The Bong Bridge starts in the neighborhood. The Minnesota approach to the US 2 crossing sits at 46th Avenue West, which is why Superior is ten minutes from here and twenty from most of Duluth.
• The freeway cut the grid. Interstate 35 runs straight through, and you can still read the severed street pattern on a map where blocks stop and restart.
• Denfeld High School is close enough to walk to from the northern blocks, which is unusual in a city where most students bus.
• The bay edge is still working ground. Rail and industry occupy the shoreline, a direct survival of the port economy the neighborhood was built to serve.

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