Anoka County was organized by an act of the territorial Legislature on May 23, 1857, the year prior to Minnesota's admission to the Union. It was formed from parts of Ramsey County and Benton County; the Rum River previously divided the line between the two counties.
The American Hackney Horse Society Foundation Scholarship will be awarded to high school graduates on the basis of submitted evidence of academic success, financial need, extracurricular activities (including community service), involvement with Hackney Horses and/or Ponies, and personal references.
tool for chopping, early 14c., from hack (v.1); cf. Meaning an act of cutting is from 1836; figurative sense of a try, an attempt is first attested 1898. person hired to do routine work, c.1700, ultimately short for hackney an ordinary horse (c.1300), probably from place name Hackney, Middlesex (q.v.).