Eastern Carver County Schools history

Town team baseball, a passion since 1871, is today represented by the Chaska Cubs who play at the historic Chaska Athletic Park.

Twenty years later, in 1891, the village of Chaska became a city.

Chaska High School first opened in the early 20th-century with its first graduating class in 1906.

Forty million of the famous cream-colored Chaska Bricks were produced in 1910 alone.

7, 1933: Opening its District schedule, Coach Albert Mooney’s Chaska High School basketball squad came through with an easy 30-10 victory over the Carver lads last night, although Chaska was not playing at any exceptional pace.

2, 1948: Members of the Walter Hecklin Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet in the city hall this evening at eight o’clock, when they will sit down for a raccoon supper prepared by the women of the Auxiliary of the Chaska Post.

3, 1953: Mankato State Teachers College recently announced plans to locate an off-campus center in Chaska during the winter quarter of its academic year and will hold the registration and first class session at 6 p.m., Tuesday evening, December 8th at the high school.

The present facility opened in 1996.

Throughout its first 100 years, Chaska’s population averaged about 2000 and the city remained an agricultural service center.

The high school was plagued with a series of racist incidents, starting with media coverage in September 2018 of students who attended a home football game in blackface and an African American-style wig.