Location
Sleepy Eye is in Brown County SLEEPY EYE, the city and railway junction in Home Township, platted by Thomas Allison and Walter Brackenridge as Sleepy Eye Lake, September 18, 1872, incorporated as a village February 14, 1878, and as a city in 1903, was named, like the adjoining lake, for a chief of the Sisseton Dakota. The post office was called Prairieville, 1871-72, when it was changed to Sleepy Eye. Businesses included a brewery, marble works, grain elevators, creameries, and mills; a Catholic seminary was located there, and a station of the Chicago and North Western was in section 32; a plant for canning peas and corn began operation in 1930. From: Upham, Warren. Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, First edition 1920. Third Edition 2001. Print.
