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At first the town was called Elwyntown, in honour of Thomas Elwyn, the gold commissioner. However, the name did not reflect the fantastic richness of the placer deposits, and in September, 1862, it was officially named Richfield by Lieutenant H.S. Palmer of the Royal Engineers, who surveyed it.
Richfield was one of the earliest postwar suburbs in the Twin Cities to be populated by veterans returning from World War II, but its claim to be Minnesota's oldest suburb date to the land's connection to Fort Snelling in the 1820s.
Long before suburban homes were built here, Richfield was characterized by its abundance of rich farmland (hence the name) as the Minneapolis and St. Paul area was beginning to grow. In 1908, Richfield officially became a city by adopting a President/Trustee form of government.
The area now known as Richfield was originally inhabited by native Dakota tribes before European settlers arrived. In the mid-1800s, the first settlers established farms and began cultivating the land. The city's name was inspired by its fertile soil, which was deemed "rich field."
Richfield got its name from the fact that when the first new settlers saw the fields they thought that sense the fields had such good hay that soil had to be rich. And they figured that with such rich soil they could grow nice big gardens and sell the extra vegetables for profit.
Aug 10, 2011 · When Richfield was first created in 1858, its territory encompassed Edina, St. Louis Park, and a sizeable chunk of Minneapolis.
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Named for its rich black prairie soil, Richfield in 1858 stretched over 63 square miles, encompassing what is now Minneapolis from Lake Street south, Edina and St. Louis Park, part of Hopkins,...
