Deephaven is a small city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States.

[6] Deephaven was settled in 1876 by Saint Louis attorney Charles Gibson.

The community was connected to the Minneapolis and Saint Louis Railway to serve both the hotel and local cottagers.

[8] One of its co-founders, Hazen Burton, built a home named "Chimo" in Deephaven in 1890.

A train depot was built near the property so that the Burtons could commute to their department store in Minneapolis.

[9] In 1893 Burton commissioned local boat builder Arthur Dyer to develop a new kind of sailboat called a racing scow.

[10] The Onawa is displayed at the Excelsior-Lake Minnetonka Historical Society Museum in nearby Excelsior.

In its place, Walter Donald Douglas of the Quaker Oats fortune and his wife Mahala built a 27-room estate named "Walden".

Douglas died in the Titanic disaster in 1912, but Mahala and her French maid Berthe Leroy survived.

[11][12] Deephaven's Cottagewood General Store, opened in 1895 by Ralph M. Chapman, served as a grocer to tourists along Lake Minnetonka.