The Secret History of the Hill
West of Crystal Lake, in what is now known as Burnsville, stands a deeply troubled patch of earth. It is a place unmarked on survey maps and unrecorded in the more legitimate history books and chronicles of Dakota County.

It was soon after Irish and Scottish immigrants arrived to settle in the area in the 1850’s that tales, told in hushed whispers, began to spread. There was something unnatural, something unwholesome about a nearby hillside.... MORE