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Social saga of two cities: an ecological and statistical study of social trends in Minneapolis and St. Paul (Bureau of social research, The Minneapolis council of social agencies, 1937). Shutter, Marion Daniel, ed. History of Minneapolis: Gateway to the Northwest (Biographies vol 3 1923) online. Walker, Charles Rumford.
Minneapolis–Saint Paul was the site of the second-costliest act of civil disobedience in U.S. history, after the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. [14] Local protests and riots caused an estimated $550 million in damages [15] and affected around 1,600 businesses. [16]
Minneapolis [a] is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. [4] With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. [7] Located in the state's center near the eastern border, it occupies both banks of the Upper Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of ...
The two towns prospered as a result of industries and businesses based around the falls, but business was better on the west side of the falls. Minneapolis incorporated as a city in 1867, and three years later it merged with the village of Saint Anthony. [1] Eventually, flour mills overtook sawmills as a dominant industry at the falls.
Duluth took its name from a French explorer. St. Paul paid homage to an apostle. Minneapolis took a different route, merging the Dakota and Greek words for water and city into an entirely new moniker.
Stevens received the claim and built a house, the first house in Minneapolis, in 1850. Later in 1854, Stevens platted the city of Minneapolis on the west bank. [101] In 1855 the first bridge across the main channel of the Mississippi (anywhere in the nation) was built between Minneapolis and Saint Anthony. [22]
Mill Ruins Park is a park in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, standing on the west side of Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River and running from 3rd Ave. S. to about 9th Ave. S. The park interprets the history of flour milling in Minneapolis and shows the ruins of several flour mills that were abandoned.
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