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Pequot Lakes ( ) is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,162 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Brainerd Micropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== According to the (Pequot Lakes Heritage Preservation Commission ), the city once called Sibley and Frogtown was renamed as Pequot. In 1900, Walter and Flora Brown filed their plat for the E 1/2 of the SW 1/4 section 10 in T136N-R29W under the title Pequot. The Pequot Indians are a tribe that used to dominate southeastern New England before the English colonists arrived. While no Pequot tribe members lived in Minnesota, they spoke an Algonquian language related to that of the local Chippewa (Ojibwe) tribes. Herman Melville named his lead ship in his novel ''Moby-Dick'' as the ''Pequod''. Two possible explanations for the town's name arise: 1. The local historian Carl Zapffe suggests that a variation of the Chippewa word for arrow (''bikwas''), as listed by Father Barroga in his Chippewa dictionary, gave rise to the word Pequot. 2. In a 1936 interview, Laurence Anderson, who moved to the town in the mid-1890sm gave the following explanation. "A daughter of 'Waubanaquot,' Chief of the White Earth Tribe, was named 'O-Pequot' and lived north of the town on the north end of Sibley Lake. She graciously allowed her dugout home to be used as a school and a church for the early settlers of the town. When she died, she was buried in the town cemetery." Because there was already a town already named Sibley in southwestern Minnesota, the U.S. Post Office said the second Sibley had to take a new name. In any event, the town officially became Pequot in 1902. Most of its current area was gained through an annexation of the entirety of the surrounding former Sibley Township on June 4, 2002.〔(State of Minnesota, Office of Administrative Hearings )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pequot Lakes, Minnesota」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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