For Native American people, the Falls of St. Anthony was a landmark and sacred place. The river was a major highway for trade and travel. Although no Indian villages have been recorded here, oral traditions suggest frequent visits for fishing and . . . — — Map (db m43661) HM
Construction on the Basilica of Saint Mary, 88 North 17th Avenue, began in 1907. It is the country's first Basilica and acts as an anchoring landmark on the north side of Loring Park.
The church was planned by French architect Emmanuel . . . — — Map (db m91409) HM
Loring Park has 14 historically designated buildings as well as the Harmon Place Historic Auto District. Some of the designated buildings include the Minneapolis Woman's Club, the Basilica of St. Mary, the Loring Theater, the Wesley Methodist . . . — — Map (db m91408) HM
The Loring Park Development District was created in 1972 to plan and underwrite high density residential and commercial building through tax increment financing. Ten blocks were demolished and redeveloped in an area roughly between the south . . . — — Map (db m91435) HM
Surveys conducted in the early 19th Century identified several significant geological features of the area now known as the Loring Park neighborhood. One was "The Devil's Backbone," a long ridge located about one mile south of the Mississippi . . . — — Map (db m91406) HM
The square seven-story building with a sloping mansard roof at First Street and Fifth Avenue was built in 1879 as the Crown Roller Mill. It was then one of the largest and most modern flour mills at the falls, although its daily capacity of 2,400 . . . — — Map (db m43004) HM
A project for the City and the People of Minneapolis by the Minneapolis Community Development Agency
[City Officials listed]
"Dedicated to the People of Minneapolis and their children and their children's children, that through the years it . . . — — Map (db m71879) HM
"This viaduct...is the only one of its kind that spans the Father of Waters, and is one of the largest and most noteworthy in the United States.
Firmer than the earth which supports it, it is constructed to stand the test of time."
. . . — — Map (db m27042) HM
The Stone Arch Bridge of the Burlington Northern Railway is acknowledged to be one of the finest stone viaducts in the world, due to its massive masonry, lofty arches, and graceful curvature.
Constructed: 1882-1883 — — Map (db m152946)
The red brick building at the corner of Third Avenue and First Street was one of many factories that supplied the barrels used for flour. Called coopers, the skilled workers who made barrels pioneered a new role for labor in Minneapolis. When their . . . — — Map (db m44523) HM
The US Post Office stands on the site of the first permanent dwelling in what is now Minneapolis. The land was part of the Fort Snelling Military Reservation in 1849, but the army allowed John H. Stevens to build a house in return for operating a . . . — — Map (db m43036) HM
Minneapolis flour milling magnate, Cadwallader C. Washburn, was a member of a Maine family that sent four brothers to Congress, all from different states. Cadwallader served Wisconsin as congressman (1854-61, 1867-71) and governor (1872-73). His . . . — — Map (db m44409) HM
Minneapolis on the west bank of the river quickly overtook St. Anthony on the east side. A major reason was more efficient use of water power. In 1857 the Minneapolis Mill Company started to build a canal along South First Street. Enlarged and . . . — — Map (db m27746) HM
The heavy cruiser USS MINNEAPOLIS was the second US Navy ship to bear the name. She was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and commissioned 19 May 1934. MINNEAPOLIS was at sea off Pearl Harbor when Japan attacked on 7 December 1941. . . . — — Map (db m91372) HM
The battleship USS MINNESOTA was the second US Navy to bear the name. She was built at Newport News, VA, and commissioned 9 March 1907. MINNESOTA sailed in late 1907 as a member of the 16 ship "Great White Fleet" on a round-the-world . . . — — Map (db m91371) HM
The story of this place begins as an encampment for untold generations of the Dakota People. Located near the ancient trail that was later to become Hennepin Avenue, the encampment lay beside a spring fed pond, at the base of the rolling oak . . . — — Map (db m91440) HM
This church stands as the first Minneapolis Methodist Church founded west of the Mississippi River. It has been the site of several Annual Conference sessions and twice Methodist bishops have been consecrated at its altar. Having brought scores . . . — — Map (db m122510) HM
After the Washburn A Mill explosion in 1878, a young Vienna-born engineer called on owner Cadwallader C. Washburn with a dust-collecting device that he said would prevent such accidents. Washburn hired him to oversee rebuilding the A Mill. . . . — — Map (db m43664) HM
Did you know that the Park Board has protected the Mississippi River as a park for over 100 years?
Within weeks of its inception in 1883, the Park Board hired H.W.S. Cleveland, a prominent landscape architect, to create a comprehensive plan . . . — — Map (db m163894) HM
Standing near here at the river's edge 5000 years ago, you would have felt the spray and heard the thunder of a spectacular waterfall. If you returned once every 500 years you would have seen the waterfall carving the Mississippi River's only true . . . — — Map (db m163305) HM
Trees planted along this parkway in the year 1939 have been named
Sesquicentennial Trees
to commemorate the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the first session of Congress and the inauguration of the first President of the United . . . — — Map (db m156475) HM
The Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Bridge spans a natural chasm of 1273 feet channeling the Mississippi River and connecting the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Today this bridge is officially dedicated to the goals of peace and goodwill . . . — — Map (db m156483) HM
Mill Ruins Park embraces the flour-milling district that once lined the west bank of the Mississippi River at the heart of Minneapolis. Between 1858 and 1930, the milling district developed along the waterpower canal built here by the . . . — — Map (db m240366) HM
Pioneer Period
182123
Waterpower development at the Falls of St. Anthony began with construction of a gristmill and sawmill near the foot of 7th Avenue South by soldiers from Fort Snelling. The mill provided flour and lumber for the . . . — — Map (db m237363) HM
The Falls of St. Anthony are the only significant cataract on the Mississippi. Their natural beauty captured the imagination and attention of Native Americans as well as early explorers and settlers. In the summer of 1680, Father Louis Hennepin, . . . — — Map (db m243168) HM
The historical, weather-worn bricks of today's Whitney have a story to tell. Since the late 1800s, these bricks have shaped the Minneapolis riverfront and witnessed its transformation. Once covered with the white dust of flour, these walls now . . . — — Map (db m231337) HM
The landscape around the Falls was transformed by many types of construction. Blasting and excavations for bridge supports and rail trackage modified the river banks, rail trestles were built over the canal and tailrace to serve the mills, and a . . . — — Map (db m241354) HM
This arch was the main entrance to the Washburn A Mill. The mill was built in 1879 on the site of the company's first A Mill (constructed in 1874), which was leveled in a flour-dust explosion on May 2, 1878. The plaque honors the memory of 14 . . . — — Map (db m231562) HM
Discriminatory rates charged by Chicago-owned railroads favored Milwaukee and Chicago flour mills. Minneapolis millers fought back by building their own railroad, the Soo Line.
On May 2, 1878, a massive explosion caused by flour dust . . . — — Map (db m243044) HM
The City Waterworks
Even during the heyday of the milling period, the towering mills, rail lines, bridges, and other aboveground features were only part of the setting which made the district an industrial powerhouse. Hidden underground . . . — — Map (db m235430) HM
Waterpower Engineering
Almost immediately after lands on the west side of the Falls were opened for private development in 1855, the Minneapolis Mill Company began to exploit the use of waterpower for commercial purposes. In 1857, the . . . — — Map (db m235926) HM
The hydroelectric plant built at the end of the dam in the 1890s had large arched windows for light and ventilation. The dam today is downstream from the railroad truss bridge that towered above the plant; only piers from the bridge . . . — — Map (db m238618) HM
You are standing on what was the ground floor of the Washburn A Mill. This floor housed the equipment that linked the power of St. Anthony Falls to the machines that milled the flour. That huge hole in front of you is a turbine pit.
When . . . — — Map (db m231521) HM
The rail platform over the waterpower canal in 1900.
Rising above the broken slabs of limestone cast off by the falls, the double row of flour mills along the west-side power canal created a narrow canyon shadowed by . . . — — Map (db m234946) HM
This mill was erected in the year 1879 on the site of Washburn Mill "A" which was totally destroyed on the second day of May 1878, by fire and a terrific explosion occasioned by the rapid combustion of flour dust. Not one stone was left upon . . . — — Map (db m231238) HM
How did water turn the wheels of industry?
Without the direct drive waterpower from St. Anthony Falls, the Minneapolis riverfront we know today might not exist. From the 1850s into the 1900s, the strength of the Mississippi River allowed . . . — — Map (db m231591) HM
The history of the city and events in our past have determined how we arrived at this point in time, as well as how we make decisions and view the world today.
Mill Ruins Park Public Archaeology Program, . . . — — Map (db m232482) HM
The City of Minneapolis was incorporated in 1855, soon after the first bridge opened across the Mississippi. Its two main thoroughfares, Hennepin and Nicollet Avenues, met at Bridge Square. That area quickly became the commercial center of a town . . . — — Map (db m231722) HM
Do you know how many times the Stevens House has been moved?
For 134 years, this small wood structure has been moved four times. The third move, which brought the house to Minnehaha Park, is heralded as the first act . . . — — Map (db m243401) HM
1. The Falls of St. Anthony
This cataract, in which the Mississippi drops about seventy-five feet, is formed by the jutting edge of a hard layer of limestone over a bed of soft sandstone. In pre-historic times, the falls was located near the . . . — — Map (db m231723) HM
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board welcomes you to Minnehaha Park. The park consists of two levels: The upper level is maintained as an open picnicking area. Many of the city's traditional festivals such as Svenskarnas Dag are held here. The . . . — — Map (db m40787) HM
Big Water
The Mississippi River, paramount among North American rivers, along with its tributaries, forms the world's fifth largest drainage system in area – 1,244,000 square miles. The Indians called this river "Father of Waters", . . . — — Map (db m106852) HM
Near Fort Snelling, 10,000 years ago, melt water from the Wisconsin glacier was discharged through the Mississippi River and plunged over a ledge of Platteville limestone into a gorge cut chiefly in the white St. Peter sandstone. The . . . — — Map (db m40765) HM
Planted April 27 1932
This tablet placed
Americanization Day
April 27 1934
By Halvarson-Bowers Aux' 187
Veterans of Foreign Wars — — Map (db m17227) HM
[In Swedish and English, English version follows]:
Oh God, who rulest fate of nations,
Almighty thou in every land;
Who holdest life and deaths privations.
Within the hollow of thy hand,
Whatever punishment thou wieldest
For . . . — — Map (db m17235) HM
Built in 1850, this was the first house on the west bank of the Mississippi, located at Saint Anthony Falls near the present-day Minneapolis Post Office.
John H. Stevens received permission to occupy the site, a part of the Fort . . . — — Map (db m17264) HM
During the 19th century, settlers, tourists, and artists were drawn to the Falls picturesque beauty, while entrepreneurs seized the water power of the falls for their lumber and flour mills. Meanwhile, promoters of river transportation viewed St. . . . — — Map (db m212195) HM
Milwaukee Road station agents affectionately referred to the quaint little Minnehaha Depot as "the Princess." Its delicate gingerbread architecture is reminiscent of the Victorian era when ladies in bustles and gentlemen in high collars traveled . . . — — Map (db m17233) HM
President Lyndon B. Johnson, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, and Governor Karl Rolvaag enjoy the spray from Minnehaha Falls. On that day in 1964, however, Minneapolis was experiencing a drought. In order to create the beautiful display of the falls . . . — — Map (db m41153) HM
Do you know how many times the Stevens House has been moved?
For 134 years, this small wood structure has been moved four times. The third move, which brought the house to Minnehaha Park, is heralded as the first act of historic . . . — — Map (db m243432) HM
Navigation on this stretch of the river in its natural state upstream from St. Paul to Minneapolis was hazardous. During high flows, the current was swift, and during low flows, huge boulders made navigation almost impossible. It wasn't until . . . — — Map (db m131135) HM
Did you know that the Winchell Trail was the first rustic hiking trail in the city?
This mostly unpaved trail winds through the gorge on the west side of the Mississippi River between Franklin Ave and Godfrey Road, ending near Minnehaha . . . — — Map (db m176187) HM
Those piles of stone and brush in the river, known as wing dams, are both cursed and praised by many a recreation boater. Lurking beneath the water near propeller depth, thousands of these jetties are located along the mainstem of the river. They . . . — — Map (db m131136) HM
Did you know that neighborhood recreation in Minneapolis began at Logan Park?
The ten-acre First Ward Park was one of the first purchased in 1883, the year the Park Board was established. First named Washburn Park, it was . . . — — Map (db m236201) HM
In 1927, Christ Manolis purchased the candy store at the southwest corner of 27th Avenue and Lake Street. Manolis emigrated from Greece at the age of 13 as part of the Great Diasporathe migration of hundreds of thousands of young Greeks . . . — — Map (db m134537) HM
A Native of Lake City, Minnesota, Elmer "E.B." Freeman opened a small haberdashery shop near East 25th Street and 26th Avenue around 1914. Three years later, he relocated his business to the first floor of the new Coliseum Building at . . . — — Map (db m205069) HM
Since the 1880s, 27th Avenue and Lake Street has been a center of commercial activity. The area was linked to downtown Minneapolis in 1890 when the electric streetcar was extended down Minnehaha Avenue en route to Minnehaha Park. Its . . . — — Map (db m134539) HM
The Lake Theater stood at 2721-23 East Lake from 1915 to the early 1960s. It was part of a group of theaters that obtained films through a "block system," rather than individual film selection. By 1926, this system alarmed the . . . — — Map (db m135079) HM
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church began in 1904 when a group of younger members of St. Peder's Lutheran Church, a Danish-speaking congregation, split from St. Peder's over the issue of English in Sunday school and services. The new church . . . — — Map (db m135064) HM
When it opened in February 1924, the East Lake branch of the Minneapolis Public Library was a vital educational center for the growing neighborhood. East Lake was one of the 13 branch libraries established under the leadership of Gratia . . . — — Map (db m135073) HM
The story of Fire Station No. 21 begins in 1894, when fire engines were large wagons pulled by a team of horses that transported firemen and equipment. Until 1901, the station had only a "chemical engine," an extinguisher unit meant to . . . — — Map (db m134487) HM
Martinus Nelson built a blacksmith shop here in 1888. The smithy serviced local horses and wagons that kept area dairy farms running. Danish immigrant Christian Lauritzen took over in 1898. Business was good in the growing community, and . . . — — Map (db m134477) HM
Christ Church Lutheran was founded on 1911. This building, designed by world famous Finnish architect, Eliel Saarinen, was completed in 1949. Immediately the building received international acclaim as one of the earliest examples of modernist . . . — — Map (db m50066) HM
Early area survey maps from 1839 show a trail roughly corresponding to present-day Minnehaha Avenue running between Fort Snelling and the Falls of St. Anthony. Following the creation of the Minnesota Territory in 1849, the general . . . — — Map (db m134546) HM
Initially known as Centennial School, the original Longfellow School stood on the NE corner of Lake and Minnehaha between 1876 and 1919. In the early 1880s, the City of Minneapolis annexed the area, and the Minneapolis Board of Education . . . — — Map (db m135063) HM
History of Lake Street
When the City of Minneapolis was established in 1856, Lake Street was a mile beyond the southern boundary of the city.
Early Lake Street was home to dance halls, lumberyards, churches, horsesheds and . . . — — Map (db m144127) HM
For nearly 100 years, this site was the location of a farm implements production facility. In 1873, a group of businessmen that included Dorilus Morrison, Minneapolis' first mayor, established Minneapolis Harvester Works. In 1880, the . . . — — Map (db m156974) HM
African American families were among the first to settle in the neighborhood that grew south of East Lake Street. During much of the 20th century, restrictive housing covenants limited where African Americans could buy homes. Minority . . . — — Map (db m134464) HM
Tracks and Yards
In 1879 the CM&StP's Short Line tracks were laid as far as Hiawatha; by 1881 they were completed west of Hiawatha Ave. as the Hastings and Dakota Division.
In 1905, H.A. Dorsey opened Wonderland Amusement Park on 10 acres between Lake ad 32nd streets and 31st and 33rd avenues. It opened to great fanfare, with 70,000 people attending on opening day. Its attractions included a 120-foot-high . . . — — Map (db m134501) HM
To commemorate
the Battle of Fort Griswold
fought September 6, 1781,
this tree
was planted in historic earth
from the thirteen original colonies.
by Minneapolis Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution.
Tablet placed . . . — — Map (db m229542) HM
The Loring Park neighborhood is home to one of the city's oldest neighborhood organizations. In 1972, neighbors banded together in a successful fight to prevent the demolition of the historic 1906 Loring Park Shelter Building. Forming the group . . . — — Map (db m231726) HM
A Grade Separation Campaign
As part of its westward expansion, the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad (CM&StP) built its Hastings and Dakota line across south Minneapolis in 1879-81. The tracks crossed what was then the city's southern . . . — — Map (db m201047) HM
Elevators and Rails
By 1890, 20 railroad lines stretched from Minneapolis in all directions, and more than 1,000 railcars entered the city each day with passengers, grain and other agricultural products, building supplies, and household goods. . . . — — Map (db m202890) HM
On September 15, 1890, the Alpha Phi Fraternity installed its sixth chapter, Epsilon chapter, at the University of Minnesota.
One of Alpha Phi's most influential members, Henrietta Coone (Beta 1887) played a vital role in the chapter's . . . — — Map (db m230364) HM
Here You Are Here, by the only natural waterfalls on the Mississippi River, the town of St. Anthony Falls got its start in the 1850s. The falls, considered sacred by the Native Americans who once called this area home, powered the mills that . . . — — Map (db m238160) HM
Cal Ripken, Sr. signed his first baseball contract in 1956. Over the next 36 years, he served as player, coach, and manager within the Baltimore Orioles' organization. Every step of the way, Cal Ripken, Sr. led by example - loyalty, hard work, . . . — — Map (db m232304) HM
"It is urged in support of the idea that it would be the favorite Sunday resort for the entire easterly portion of the city."
Minneapolis Tribune, December 19, 1892
Rolling along the River
The Mississippi River was an important trade route. Dakota, Ojibwe, and other American Indian people had moved along the river in canoes for thousands of years. Settlers began to arrive on steamboats into St. Paul . . . — — Map (db m235665) HM
In honor of the 2014 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Major League Baseball, the Minnesota Twins, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, the Pohlad Family Foundation, and the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation provided substantial financial support . . . — — Map (db m231942) HM
Community Design Process
In 1911, a four-span Howe truss bridge became the first of three to carry passenger traffic across the Northtown Yards. In 1925, it was replaced with a wider five-span Warren truss bridge. This bridgethen part of . . . — — Map (db m232388) HM
The first bridge at 33rd Avenue N.E. (1911) before dismantling, June 1925 (NP Archives, MHS)
Crossing Northtown Yard: The St. Anthony Parkway Bridge
Three bridges have spanned the wide expanse of the . . . — — Map (db m242658) HM
"This section of the Grand Rounds is of outstanding importance to the city, but more particularly so to the East Side... A very interesting feature of this drive is the wonderful view it affords of the network of railroads and shops . . . — — Map (db m245371) HM
Named by its owner, showman-entrepreneur R.F. "Fish" Jones, in 1906, Longfellow Zoological Gardens was part amusement park and zoo, and part formal gardens. Jones was reputed to be a devotee of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, but it may have been his . . . — — Map (db m244053) HM
Nicollet Island bears the name of a French scholar and scientist who explored the headwaters of the Mississippi for the US government in 1836. Accompanied by some Ojibway friends and two hired voyageurs, Joseph Nicollet camped by the falls for . . . — — Map (db m38455) HM
The Nicollet Island Pavilion building was built in 1893 as the William Bros. Boiler Works. The Nicollet Island Inn was built the same year as the Island Sash and Door Company. Nearby was the large Island Power Building which was torn down in 1937. . . . — — Map (db m99665) HM
Midstream in the Mississippi River, Nicollet Island served countless generations of Indian people as a crossing point and camping spot. After Europeans assumed the right to make boundaries, the island lay between lands claimed by England, France, . . . — — Map (db m155492) HM
Do you know why there were no playgrounds in the first Minneapolis parks?
Because the concept of a playground did not exist in 1883, when Horace Cleveland designed the first parks for the newly established Park Board. Parks were quiet . . . — — Map (db m176877) HM
In July 1931, Arthur and Edith Lee and their 5-year-old daughter Mary, an African-American family, moved into this home at 4600 Columbus Avenue South which they had purchased that spring. Immediately, their white neighbors mobilized to drive them . . . — — Map (db m205392) HM
Because of the rapid growth of population, agriculture, and industry in the Upper Midwest after 1900, Congress authorized the Corps of Engineers to construct the Mississippi River locks and dams. The Mississippi River, once the principal artery of . . . — — Map (db m232537) HM
Transportation & Industry
The streetcar system began in 1875. Where tracks were laid, people built homes and businesses. Each night they patiently waited at the corners where every hour they could ride the trolley for work or pleasure. The . . . — — Map (db m232205) HM
Northeast Homes Have Distinct Differences
Northeast Minneapolis housing is distinctly different from that in other parts of the city. The upper-middle class and business owners built the older houses in much of Minneapolis. But in old St. . . . — — Map (db m232206) HM
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