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The twin cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis (Ballinger Publishing Company, 1976). Borchert, John R. "The twin cities urbanized area: past, present, future." Geographical Review 51.1 (1961): 47-70 online. Faue, Elizabeth (1991). Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915–1945. UNC Press Books.
Originally founded as Villanueva de La Serena, the city was destroyed completely in a native uprising in 1549 and re-founded the same year as San Bartolomé de La Serena; its founding date is for this reason sometimes listed as 1549. Second oldest European city in Chile. 1545: Potosí: Potosí: Bolivia: 1545 San Juan de los Remedios: Villa ...
Charles Alfred Pillsbury (December 3, 1842 – September 17, 1899) was an American businessman, flour industrialist, and politician. He was a co-founder of the Pillsbury Company . Early life
Minneapolis has a history of structural racism [285] and has racial disparities in nearly every aspect of society. [286] As White settlers displaced the Indigenous population during the 19th century, they claimed the city's land, [ 287 ] and Kirsten Delegard of Mapping Prejudice explains that today's disparities evolved from control of the land ...
Hennepin County (/ ˈ h ɛ n ə p ɪ n / HEN-ə-pin) is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota.Its county seat is Minneapolis, [2] the state's most populous city. [3] The county is named for the 17th-century explorer Louis Hennepin. [4]
The Minnesota Orchestra dates back to 1903 when it was founded as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. [205] It was renamed the Minnesota Orchestra in 1968 and moved into its own building, Orchestra Hall , in downtown Minneapolis in 1974. [ 206 ]
Minnesota Territory had three significant pioneer settlements: St. Paul, St. Anthony/Minneapolis, and Stillwater, plus two military reservations: Fort Snelling and Fort Ripley. All of these were located on waterways. A reservation for the Winnebago people had been created at Long Prairie in 1848. The Chippewa Agency, at Crow Wing, was founded ...
This gave birth to the nickname of the region, the "Twin Cities" metropolitan area. A view of the town of Tornio , which forms a twin city with Haparanda . Twin cities are a special case of two neighboring cities or urban centres that grow into a single conurbation – or narrowly separated urban areas – over time. There are no formal ...