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<br />• <br />The Minnesota State Fair has occupied the land west of Snelling and north of Como <br />Avenue since 1885 and draws over two million people to Falcon Heights each year. The <br />University of Minnesota School of Agriculture, established in 1888 southwest of <br />Cleveland and Larpenteur, has conducted continuous agricultural experimentation and <br />research for more than 100 years at this location. <br />Once dominated by farms and nurseries, Falcon Heights got its name in the 1930s from a <br />subdivision that was platted by John Cable and named by and for his real estate agent, a <br />man named Faulkner. Falcon Heights was incorporated as a village in 1949 and as a city <br />in 1973 by mandate of the State Legislature. The community grew rapidly after 1940, <br />reaching a population of nearly 6,000 in 1960. <br />In the 1920s the Snelling and Larpenteur intersection was the site of Curtiss Field one of <br />the Twin Cities' earliest air fields. The only remaining trace of Curtiss Field, where <br />Northwest Airlines is said to have "gotten off the ground," is in the name of the nearby <br />neighborhood park. Commercial development began at Snelling and Larpenteur and on <br />Hamline between Hoyt and Iowa Avenues in the 1940s. The distinctive Harvest States <br />Co-op building at the southwest corner of Snelling and Larpenteur, now occupied by <br />• TIES, was built in 1949. <br />In 2003 the aging shopping center at the southeast corner of Snelling and Larpenteur was <br />razed to make way for the City's largest development project in many years. The new <br />Falcon Heights Comprehensive Plan 2008 Draft -January, 2008 Section I: Background, Page I-7 <br />Figure 2: Future Falcon Heights in Rose Township. 1940 Aerial Photo, Ramsey County GIS User Group <br />