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Sleepy Eye en · PROPN

Etymology

The city is named after the lake, which was named after a local Dakota chief of the 1800s, said to have had a drooping eyelid or eyelids.

Meanings

  1. A lake in Minnesota, United States.
  2. A small city in rural Brown County, Minnesota, United States.
    • The employees contend that inasmuch as there are seven engines hostled at Sleepy Eye within a 12-hour period, a hostler from the ranks of the firemen must be assigned […] 1924, Decisions of the United States Railroad Labor Board, page 732: