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Mississippi River
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The Mississippi River is the chief river of the largest drainage system on the North American continent. Flowing entirely in the United States, it rises in northern Minnesota, with its many tributaries, the Mississippis watershed drains all or parts of 31 U. S. states and 2 Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains. The Mississippi ranks as the fourth longest and fifteenth largest river in the world by discharge, the river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Native Americans long lived along the Mississippi River and its tributaries, most were hunter-gatherers, but some, such as the Mound Builders, formed prolific agricultural societies. The arrival of Europeans in the 16th century changed the way of life as first explorers, then settlers. The river served first as a barrier, forming borders for New Spain, New France, and the early United States, and then as a vital transportation artery and communications link. Formed from thick layers of the silt deposits, the Mississippi embayment is one of the most fertile agricultural regions of the country. In recent years, the river has shown a shift towards the Atchafalaya River channel in the Delta. The word itself comes from Messipi, the French rendering of the Anishinaabe name for the river, see below in the History section for additional information. In addition to historical traditions shown by names, there are at least two measures of a rivers identity, one being the largest branch, and the other being the longest branch. Using the largest-branch criterion, the Ohio would be the branch of the Lower Mississippi. Using the longest-branch criterion, the Middle Mississippi-Missouri-Jefferson-Beaverhead-Red Rock-Hellroaring Creek River would be the main branch and its length of at least 3,745 mi is exceeded only by the Nile, the Amazon, and perhaps the Yangtze River among the longest rivers in the world. The source of this waterway is at Browers Spring,8,800 feet above sea level in southwestern Montana and this is exemplified by the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the phrase Trans-Mississippi as used in the name of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. It is common to qualify a regionally superlative landmark in relation to it, the New Madrid Seismic Zone along the river is also noteworthy. These various basic geographical aspects of the river in turn underlie its human history and present uses of the waterway, the Upper Mississippi runs from its headwaters to its confluence with the Missouri River at St. Louis, Missouri. The source of the Upper Mississippi branch is traditionally accepted as Lake Itasca,1,475 feet above sea level in Itasca State Park in Clearwater County, however, the lake is in turn fed by a number of smaller streams. From its origin at Lake Itasca to St. Louis, Missouri, fourteen of these dams are located above Minneapolis in the headwaters region and serve multiple purposes, including power generation and recreation. The remaining 29 dams, beginning in downtown Minneapolis, all locks and were constructed to improve commercial navigation of the upper river
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Mississippi River near Fire Point in
Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa
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Detailed map of Mississippi River tributary structure
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The beginning of the Mississippi River at
Lake Itasca (2004)
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Mississippi head of navigation, Coon Rapids Dam
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Saint Anthony Falls
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Saint Anthony Falls or the Falls of Saint Anthony, located northeast of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the only natural major waterfall on the Upper Mississippi River. The natural falls were replaced by an overflow spillway after it partially collapsed in 1869. Later, in the 1950s and 1960s, a series of locks, from 1880 to about 1930, Minneapolis was the Flour Milling Capital of the World. These locks were built as part of the Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Navigation Project, the area around the falls is designated the St. Anthony Falls Historic District and features a 1. 8-mile self-guided walking trail with signs explaining the areas past. Before European exploration, the falls held cultural and political significance for native tribes who frequented the area, the falls was an important and sacred site to the Mdewakanton Dakota and they called the Mississippi River, hahawakpa, river of the falls. Dakota associated the falls with legends and spirits, including Oanktehi, god of waters and evil, the rocky islet where the woman had pointed her canoe towards doom thus was named Spirit Island which was once a nesting ground for eagles that fed on fish below the falls. Dakota also camped on Nicollet Island upstream of the falls to fish, since the cataract had to be portaged, the area became one of the natural resting and trade points along the Mississippi between Dakota and Anishinaabe peoples. The Anishinaabe term was recorded as kakabikah, Hennepin named them the Chutes de Saint-Antoine or the Falls of Saint Anthony after his patron saint, Anthony of Padua. Later explorers to document the falls include Jonathan Carver and Zebulon Montgomery Pike, by the 1860s, however, industrial waste had filled the area and marred the falls majesty. The districts archaeological record is one of the historic sites in Minnesota. The National Register of Historic Places is facilitated by the National Park Service, a Heritage Trail plaque nearby says, For untold generations of Indian people the Mississippi River was an important canoe route. To pass around the falls, the Dakota and Ojibway used a portage trail. Starting at a landing below the now occupied by the steam plant. From here it followed the east bank along what is now Main Street to a point well above the falls, geologists say that the falls first appeared roughly 10,000 years ago several miles downstream at the confluence of the glacial River Warren. Estimates are that the falls were about 180 feet high when the River Warren Falls receded past the confluence of the Mississippi River, over the succeeding 10,000 years, the falls moved upstream to its present location. The water churning at the bottom of the falls ate away at the soft sandstone, from its origins near Fort Snelling, St. Anthony Falls relocated upstream at a rate of about 4 feet per year until it reached its present location in the early 19th century. Tributaries such as Minnehaha Creek begot their own waterfalls as the Mississippi River valley was cut into the landscape, when Father Louis Hennepin documented the falls he estimated the falls height to be 50 or 60 feet. Later explorers described it as being in the range of 16 to 20 feet high, the discrepancy may have been due to scope, as the current total drop in river level over the series of dams is 76 ft
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St. Anthony Falls Historic District
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The Falls of St. Anthony by
Albert Bierstadt
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The upper dam of St. Anthony Falls with upper lock on the left. The Third Avenue Bridge can be seen in the background. Photo taken in October 2005.
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Mississippi River at Minneapolis today, looking downstream. The bridge in the foreground is the
Third Avenue Bridge, behind it are the Upper St Anthony Falls to the left and the upper lock and dam to the right, followed by the
Stone Arch Bridge. The new
I-35W Saint Anthony Falls Bridge can be seen in the background.
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Minneapolis
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Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As of 2015, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul anchor the second-largest economic center in the Midwest, after Chicago. Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul. It was once the worlds flour milling capital and a hub for timber, the city and surrounding region is the primary business center between Chicago and Seattle, with Minneapolis proper containing Americas fifth-highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies. As an integral link to the economy, Minneapolis is categorized as a global city. Noted for its music and performing arts scenes, Minneapolis is home to both the award-winning Guthrie Theater and the historic First Avenue nightclub. The name Minneapolis is attributed to Charles Hoag, the citys first schoolteacher, who combined mni, a Dakota Sioux word for water, and polis, Dakota Sioux had long been the regions sole residents when French explorers arrived around 1680. For a time relations were based on fur trading, gradually more European-American settlers arrived, competing for game and other resources with the Dakota. In the early 19th century, the United States acquired this territory from France, fort Snelling was built in 1819 by the United States Army, and it attracted traders, settlers and merchants, spurring growth in the area. The United States government pressed the Mdewakanton band of the Dakota to sell their land, the Minnesota Territorial Legislature authorized present-day Minneapolis as a town in 1856 on the Mississippis west bank. Minneapolis incorporated as a city in 1867, the rail service began between Minneapolis and Chicago. It later joined with the city of St. Anthony in 1872. Minneapolis developed around Saint Anthony Falls, the highest waterfall on the Mississippi River, forests in northern Minnesota were a valuable resource for the lumber industry, which operated seventeen sawmills on power from the waterfall. By 1871, the west river bank had twenty-three businesses, including mills, woolen mills, iron works, a railroad machine shop, and mills for cotton, paper, sashes. Due to the hazards of milling, six local sources of artificial limbs were competing in the prosthetics business by the 1890s. The farmers of the Great Plains grew grain that was shipped by rail to the citys thirty-four flour mills, a father of modern milling in America and founder of what became General Mills, Cadwallader C. Some ideas were developed by William Dixon Gray and some acquired through industrial espionage from the Hungarians by William de la Barre, pillsbury Company across the river were barely a step behind, hiring Washburn employees to immediately use the new methods. The hard red spring wheat that grows in Minnesota became valuable, not until later did consumers discover the value in the bran that Minneapolis
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Clockwise from top:
Downtown Minneapolis,
Downtown,
TCF Bank Stadium, the
Guthrie Theater,
Minnehaha Falls, and
First Avenue and 7th St Entry nightclub
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Taoyateduta was among the 121
Sioux leaders who from 1837 to 1851 ceded what is now Minneapolis.
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Loading
flour,
Pillsbury, 1939
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Mississippi riverfront and
Saint Anthony Falls in 1915. At left,
Pillsbury, power plants and the
Stone Arch Bridge. Today the
Minnesota Historical Society 's Mill City Museum is in the
Washburn "A" Mill, across the river just to the left of the falls. At center left are
Northwestern Consolidated mills. The tall building is
Minneapolis City Hall. In the right foreground are
Nicollet Island and the
Hennepin Avenue Bridge.
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Minnesota
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Minnesota is a state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States. Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U. S. state on May 11,1858, the state has a large number of lakes, and is known by the slogan Land of 10,000 Lakes. Its official motto is LÉtoile du Nord, Minnesota is the 12th largest in area and the 21st most populous of the U. S. Minnesota is known for its progressive political orientation and its high rate of civic participation and voter turnout. Until European settlement, Minnesota was inhabited by the Dakota and Ojibwe/Anishinaabe, in recent decades, immigration from Asia, the Horn of Africa, and Latin America has broadened its historic demographic and cultural composition. Minnesotas standard of living index is among the highest in the United States, Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers by dropping milk into water and calling it mnisota. Many places in the state have similar names, such as Minnehaha Falls, Minneiska, Minneota, Minnetonka, Minnetrista, and Minneapolis, a combination of mni and polis, Minnesota is the second northernmost U. S. state. Its isolated Northwest Angle in Lake of the Woods county is the part of the 48 contiguous states lying north of the 49th parallel. The state is part of the U. S. region known as the Upper Midwest and it shares a Lake Superior water border with Michigan and a land and water border with Wisconsin to the east. Iowa is to the south, North Dakota and South Dakota are to the west, with 86,943 square miles, or approximately 2.25 percent of the United States, Minnesota is the 12th-largest state. Minnesota has some of the Earths oldest rocks, gneisses that are about 3.6 billion years old. About 2.7 billion years ago, basaltic lava poured out of cracks in the floor of the primordial ocean, the roots of these volcanic mountains and the action of Precambrian seas formed the Iron Range of northern Minnesota. Following a period of volcanism 1, in more recent times, massive ice sheets at least one kilometer thick ravaged the landscape of the state and sculpted its terrain. The Wisconsin glaciation left 12,000 years ago and these glaciers covered all of Minnesota except the far southeast, an area characterized by steep hills and streams that cut into the bedrock. This area is known as the Driftless Zone for its absence of glacial drift, much of the remainder of the state outside the northeast has 50 feet or more of glacial till left behind as the last glaciers retreated. Gigantic Lake Agassiz formed in the northwest 13,000 years ago and its bed created the fertile Red River valley, and its outflow, glacial River Warren, carved the valley of the Minnesota River and the Upper Mississippi downstream from Fort Snelling. Minnesota is geologically quiet today, it experiences earthquakes infrequently, the states high point is Eagle Mountain at 2,301 feet, which is only 13 miles away from the low of 601 feet at the shore of Lake Superior. Notwithstanding dramatic local differences in elevation, much of the state is a rolling peneplain. Two major drainage divides meet in Minnesotas northeast in rural Hibbing, forming a triple watershed, precipitation can follow the Mississippi River south to the Gulf of Mexico, the Saint Lawrence Seaway east to the Atlantic Ocean, or the Hudson Bay watershed to the Arctic Ocean
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Eagle Mountain, the highest natural point in Minnesota at 2,301 feet (701 m) is located in northeastern part of the state.
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United States Census Bureau
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The United States Census Bureau is a principal agency of the U. S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. The Census Bureaus primary mission is conducting the U. S. Census every ten years, in addition to the decennial census, the Census Bureau continually conducts dozens of other censuses and surveys, including the American Community Survey, the U. S. Economic Census, and the Current Population Survey, furthermore, economic and foreign trade indicators released by the federal government typically contain data produced by the Census Bureau. The Bureaus various censuses and surveys help allocate over $400 billion in federal funds every year and help states, local communities, the Census Bureau is part of the U. S. Department of Commerce and its director is appointed by the President of the United States. The Census Bureau now conducts a population count every 10 years in years ending with a 0. Between censuses, the Census Bureau makes population estimates and projections, the Census Bureau is mandated with fulfilling these obligations, the collecting of statistics about the nation, its people, and economy. The Census Bureaus legal authority is codified in Title 13 of the United States Code, the Census Bureau also conducts surveys on behalf of various federal government and local government agencies on topics such as employment, crime, health, consumer expenditures, and housing. Within the bureau, these are known as surveys and are conducted perpetually between and during decennial population counts. The Census Bureau also conducts surveys of manufacturing, retail, service. Between 1790 and 1840, the census was taken by marshals of the judicial districts, the Census Act of 1840 established a central office which became known as the Census Office. Several acts followed that revised and authorized new censuses, typically at the 10-year intervals, in 1902, the temporary Census Office was moved under the Department of Interior, and in 1903 it was renamed the Census Bureau under the new Department of Commerce and Labor. The department was intended to consolidate overlapping statistical agencies, but Census Bureau officials were hindered by their role in the department. An act in 1920 changed the date and authorized manufacturing censuses every 2 years, in 1929, a bill was passed mandating the House of Representatives be reapportioned based on the results of the 1930 Census. In 1954, various acts were codified into Title 13 of the US Code, by law, the Census Bureau must count everyone and submit state population totals to the U. S. President by December 31 of any year ending in a zero. States within the Union receive the results in the spring of the following year, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. The Census Bureau regions are widely used. for data collection, the Census Bureau definition is pervasive. Title 13 of the U. S. Code establishes penalties for the disclosure of this information, all Census employees must sign an affidavit of non-disclosure prior to employment. The Bureau cannot share responses, addresses or personal information with anyone including United States or foreign government, only after 72 years does the information collected become available to other agencies or the general public
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Census headquarters in
Suitland, Maryland
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Seal
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A card puncher, part of the tabulation system used to compile the thousands of facts gathered by the Bureau. Holes are punched in the card according to a prearranged code transferring the facts from the census questionnaire into statistics.
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United States Census, 2000
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This was the twenty-second federal census and was at the time the largest civilly administered peacetime effort in the United States. Approximately 16 percent of households received a form of the 2000 census. Full documentation on the 2000 census, including forms and a procedural history, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Microdata from the 2000 census is available through the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Aggregate data for small areas, together with electronic boundary files, personally identifiable information will be available in 2072. The U. S. resident population includes the number of people in the 50 states. The Bureau also enumerated the residents of the U. S. territory of Puerto Rico, its population was 3,808,610, the 2000 Census was the first time survey options for multiracial Americans were provided. S. Households had access to computers, 42% have Internet access, regionally, the South and West experienced the bulk of the nations population increase,14,790,890 and 10,411,850, respectively. This meant that the center of U. S. population moved to Phelps County. The Northeast grew by 2,785,149, the Midwest by 4,724,144, the results of the census are used to determine how many congressional districts each state is apportioned. Congress defines the formula, in accordance with Title 2 of the U. S. Code, each member of the House represents a population of about 647,000. The populations of the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico are excluded from the apportionment population because they do not have voting seats in the U. S, since the first census in 1790, the decennial count has been the basis for the United States representative form of government. Article I, Section II specifies that The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, in 1790, each member of the House represented about 34,000 residents. Since then, the House more than quadrupled in size, today, each member represents about 20 times as many constituents. This recommendation was followed by the Secretary of Commerce, after the census was tabulated, Utah challenged the results in two different ways. Utah was extremely close to gaining a fourth seat, falling 857 people short. The margin was later shortened to 80 people, after the government discovered that it overcounted the population of North Carolina by 2,673 residents. Utah claimed that individuals traveling abroad as religious missionaries should be counted as residents, almost half of all Mormon missionaries, more than 11,000 individuals, were from Utah, only 102 came from North Carolina
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U.S. Census Bureau Seal
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Nicollet Island/East Bank, Minneapolis
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Nicollet Island/East Bank is a neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota, situated just across the Mississippi River from Downtown, one of six in the University community. It comprises Nicollet Island and the portion of the eastern riverbank located between Central Avenue and the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railroad line, East Hennepin Avenue runs through the middle of the neighborhood, which means it is situated in parts of both Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis. The neighborhood is bounded by Central Avenue, 2nd Avenue NE, due to its proximity to Downtown, the area has seen a wave of gentrification in recent years, with shopping complexes and upscale condominiums built in the area. Minneapolis Neighborhood Profile - Nicollet Island/East Bank Nicollet Island - East Bank Neighborhood Association
Nicollet Island/East Bank, Minneapolis
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Old St. Anthony, including
St. Anthony Main, the
Pillsbury "A" Mill, cobblestone streets and cranes for condo construction
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Joseph Nicollet
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Joseph Nicolas Nicollet, also known as Jean-Nicolas Nicollet, was a French geographer, astronomer, and mathematician known for mapping the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s. Nicollet led three expeditions in the region between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, primarily in Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota. Before emigrating to the United States, Nicollet was a professor of mathematics at Collège Louis-le-Grand, political and academic changes in France led Nicollet to travel to the United States to do work that would bolster his reputation among academics in Europe. Nicollets maps were among the most accurate of the time, correcting errors made by Zebulon Pike and they were also among the first to depict elevation by hachuring and the only maps to use regional Native American placenames. Nicollets Map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi was published in 1843, Nicollet Tower, located in Sisseton, South Dakota is a monument to Nicollet and his work and was constructed in 1991. Nicollet was born in the French Alpes city of Cluses, Savoy and he was very bright, showing aptitude in mathematics and astronomy that earned him a scholarship to the Jesuit college in Chambéry. He began teaching mathematics at age 19, in 1817, he was appointed as a professor and astronomer at the Paris Observatory and worked with scientist and mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace. While working at the observatory, Nicollet discovered a comet and built a reputation as an expert in astronomy, during the 1820s, he worked as a mathematics professor at the Collège Louis-le-Grand. Nicollet encountered financial and professional difficulties resulting from political turbulence in France following the July Revolution, penniless, he emigrated to the United States in 1832, sailing from the port of Brest. Nicollet hoped to boost his reputation among European academics through his work in the US and he intended to make a scientific tour of the country and had a goal of using his expertise to accurately map the Mississippi River Valley. He arrived in Washington, D. C. where he met with scientists and government officials and he traveled to New Orleans, from where he intended to proceed to St. Louis, Missouri, but due to a cholera outbreak, travel by steamboat was practically halted. Instead he spent the three years traveling throughout the south, primarily between New Orleans and Baltimore. Nicollet finally arrived in St. Louis in 1835, upon his arrival 1835 in St. Louis, Nicollet gained support for his plan to map the Mississippi River from the American Fur Company and the wealthy Choteau family. From St. Louis, he took a boat up the river to Fort Snelling, over the next 4 years Nicollet led three expeditions exploring the Upper Mississippi, mostly in the area that is now Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The first expedition took place in 1836–37 and was funded by American Fur. Nicollet departed Fort Snelling by canoe on July 29,1836, accompanied by Chagobay, an Ojibwe chief, his son. Nicollet explored the Mississippi to its source of Lake Itasca and the nearby Mississippi tributary, the St. Croix River. The results of this expedition corrected an error in Zebulon Pikes 1805 map, upon his return to Washington, D. C
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Portrait and autograph of J.N. Nicollet
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Nicollet's map of the Hydrographical Basin of the
Upper Mississippi River, 1843.
Joseph Nicollet
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Nicollet Tower, located in
Sisseton, South Dakota
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Hennepin Avenue Bridge
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The Hennepin Avenue Bridge is the structure that carries Hennepin County State Aid Highway 52, Hennepin Avenue, across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota at Nicollet Island. Officially, it is the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge, in honor of the 17th-century explorer Louis Hennepin, who was the first European to see the Saint Anthony Falls, a short distance downriver. Two of the three structures have been suspension bridges, while a third—which existed nearly a century—was composed of steel arch spans. The original crossing, which opened as a bridge on January 23,1855, is believed to have been the first permanent span across the Mississippi at any point. Other bridges were completed in 1876,1891, and most recently 1990, today, the bridges main span is 190 metres in length, making it rather small by modern standards. List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River Costello, Mary Charlotte, climbing the Mississippi River Bridge by Bridge, Volume Two, Minnesota. Father Louis Hennepin Bridge page on Highways, Byways, And Bridge Photography johnweeks. com Retrieved 11-12-2012, Father Louis Hennepin Bridge at Structurae
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Hennepin Avenue Bridge as it appears today.
Hennepin Avenue Bridge
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The original structure circa 1865
Hennepin Avenue Bridge
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Facing
Northeast Minneapolis
Hennepin Avenue Bridge
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Bridge with
Grain Belt sign (inset)
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Northeast Minneapolis
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Northeast is a defined community in the U. S. city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, composed of 13 smaller neighborhoods whose street addresses end in NE. Northeast is sometimes referred to as Nordeast, reflecting the history of northern and eastern European immigrants, the prominent features of Northeast include ornate Eastern European influenced churches and massive grain silos and mills. Mostly built around the late 19th to early 20th century, these structures shadow the landscape of modest Victorians and four story apartments. In 1848, Franklin Steele purchased the land that would become St. Anthony and this place marked the original northernmost navigable point of the Mississippi River. The falls provided a power source and soon many mills had been constructed there. The land west of the Mississippi was opened for settlement in 1852, St Anthony was incorporated in 1855,12 years before its neighbor Minneapolis. St Anthony and Minneapolis existed as separate cities until 1872 when they agreed to merge under the name of Minneapolis, the former St. Anthony became Northeast Minneapolis and a township north of the city incorporated the name St. Anthony. Northeast has undergone several reinvestment periods of infrastructure, the next few decades carried massive condo development which echoed the rising architecture in downtown Minneapolis. The area also has a history of historic preservation, in the 1960s, a proposal to build a freeway through the area was fought. The proposed freeway, Interstate 335, would connect I-94 in north Minneapolis to I-35W north of the University of Minnesota, land was bought and cleared with residents relocating before the project was finally defeated by local residents and activists. Ultimately new housing and industrial buildings were built on the cleared land, soon after, a historic preservation district was enacted on the site of the Pillsbury A Mill, stretching east to nearby Marcy Holmes. The community is bounded by the city limits of Minneapolis on the north and east, by the Mississippi River on the west and it does not include the Old Saint Anthony business district, which is entirely located within the University community. These official borders are established policy by the city, both City Council Ward boundaries and the Neighborhood Revitalization Program follow these borders. The name Northeast originally came from the city’s street-naming system. Streets suffixed “North, ” “South, ” “East, ” and “West” are all located west of the Mississippi River, while streets east of the river are suffixed “Northeast” and “Southeast. ”The dividing line between these two suffixes is East Hennepin Avenue. Again, Northeast under this scheme does not include all of the Old Saint Anthony business district, the Northeast Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce only identifies with the northeast streets. The business district of Old Saint Anthony is commonly known as Northeast, a spot at 974 feet in or near Waite Park in Northeast Minneapolis is corroborated by Google Earth as the highest ground in all of Minneapolis. By 1930, immigrants made up nearly 60% of Northeasts total population, the Eastern European immigrants, particularly the Poles with whom Northeast is most often associated, had a profound influence on the cultural life of Minneapolis
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East Hennepin Avenue, looking north to the birthplace of Nordeast
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Saint Anthony Falls, 1908
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The gateway to Northeast: the
Hennepin Avenue Bridge and the landmark
Grain Belt beer sign.
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At the gateway to Northeast, Nye's Polonaise Room, a longtime polka bar
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Saint Anthony Falls Historic District
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Saint Anthony Falls or the Falls of Saint Anthony, located northeast of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the only natural major waterfall on the Upper Mississippi River. The natural falls were replaced by an overflow spillway after it partially collapsed in 1869. Later, in the 1950s and 1960s, a series of locks, from 1880 to about 1930, Minneapolis was the Flour Milling Capital of the World. These locks were built as part of the Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Navigation Project, the area around the falls is designated the St. Anthony Falls Historic District and features a 1. 8-mile self-guided walking trail with signs explaining the areas past. Before European exploration, the falls held cultural and political significance for native tribes who frequented the area, the falls was an important and sacred site to the Mdewakanton Dakota and they called the Mississippi River, hahawakpa, river of the falls. Dakota associated the falls with legends and spirits, including Oanktehi, god of waters and evil, the rocky islet where the woman had pointed her canoe towards doom thus was named Spirit Island which was once a nesting ground for eagles that fed on fish below the falls. Dakota also camped on Nicollet Island upstream of the falls to fish, since the cataract had to be portaged, the area became one of the natural resting and trade points along the Mississippi between Dakota and Anishinaabe peoples. The Anishinaabe term was recorded as kakabikah, Hennepin named them the Chutes de Saint-Antoine or the Falls of Saint Anthony after his patron saint, Anthony of Padua. Later explorers to document the falls include Jonathan Carver and Zebulon Montgomery Pike, by the 1860s, however, industrial waste had filled the area and marred the falls majesty. The districts archaeological record is one of the historic sites in Minnesota. The National Register of Historic Places is facilitated by the National Park Service, a Heritage Trail plaque nearby says, For untold generations of Indian people the Mississippi River was an important canoe route. To pass around the falls, the Dakota and Ojibway used a portage trail. Starting at a landing below the now occupied by the steam plant. From here it followed the east bank along what is now Main Street to a point well above the falls, geologists say that the falls first appeared roughly 10,000 years ago several miles downstream at the confluence of the glacial River Warren. Estimates are that the falls were about 180 feet high when the River Warren Falls receded past the confluence of the Mississippi River, over the succeeding 10,000 years, the falls moved upstream to its present location. The water churning at the bottom of the falls ate away at the soft sandstone, from its origins near Fort Snelling, St. Anthony Falls relocated upstream at a rate of about 4 feet per year until it reached its present location in the early 19th century. Tributaries such as Minnehaha Creek begot their own waterfalls as the Mississippi River valley was cut into the landscape, when Father Louis Hennepin documented the falls he estimated the falls height to be 50 or 60 feet. Later explorers described it as being in the range of 16 to 20 feet high, the discrepancy may have been due to scope, as the current total drop in river level over the series of dams is 76 ft
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St. Anthony Falls Historic District
Saint Anthony Falls Historic District
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The Falls of St. Anthony by
Albert Bierstadt
Saint Anthony Falls Historic District
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The upper dam of St. Anthony Falls with upper lock on the left. The Third Avenue Bridge can be seen in the background. Photo taken in October 2005.
Saint Anthony Falls Historic District
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Mississippi River at Minneapolis today, looking downstream. The bridge in the foreground is the
Third Avenue Bridge, behind it are the Upper St Anthony Falls to the left and the upper lock and dam to the right, followed by the
Stone Arch Bridge. The new
I-35W Saint Anthony Falls Bridge can be seen in the background.
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National Register of Historic Places
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The National Register of Historic Places is the United States federal governments official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966 established the National Register, of the more than one million properties on the National Register,80,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts, each year approximately 30,000 properties are added to the National Register as part of districts or by individual listings. For most of its history the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service and its goals are to help property owners and interest groups, such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation, coordinate, identify, and protect historic sites in the United States. While National Register listings are mostly symbolic, their recognition of significance provides some financial incentive to owners of listed properties, protection of the property is not guaranteed. During the nomination process, the property is evaluated in terms of the four criteria for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, the application of those criteria has been the subject of criticism by academics of history and preservation, as well as the public and politicians. Occasionally, historic sites outside the proper, but associated with the United States are also listed. Properties can be nominated in a variety of forms, including individual properties, historic districts, the Register categorizes general listings into one of five types of properties, district, site, structure, building, or object. National Register Historic Districts are defined geographical areas consisting of contributing and non-contributing properties, some properties are added automatically to the National Register when they become administered by the National Park Service. These include National Historic Landmarks, National Historic Sites, National Historical Parks, National Military Parks/Battlefields, National Memorials, on October 15,1966, the Historic Preservation Act created the National Register of Historic Places and the corresponding State Historic Preservation Offices. Initially, the National Register consisted of the National Historic Landmarks designated before the Registers creation, approval of the act, which was amended in 1980 and 1992, represented the first time the United States had a broad-based historic preservation policy. To administer the newly created National Register of Historic Places, the National Park Service of the U. S. Department of the Interior, hartzog, Jr. established an administrative division named the Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation. Hartzog charged OAHP with creating the National Register program mandated by the 1966 law, ernest Connally was the Offices first director. Within OAHP new divisions were created to deal with the National Register, the first official Keeper of the Register was William J. Murtagh, an architectural historian. During the Registers earliest years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, organization was lax and SHPOs were small, understaffed, and underfunded. A few years later in 1979, the NPS history programs affiliated with both the U. S. National Parks system and the National Register were categorized formally into two Assistant Directorates. Established were the Assistant Directorate for Archeology and Historic Preservation and the Assistant Directorate for Park Historic Preservation, from 1978 until 1981, the main agency for the National Register was the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service of the United States Department of the Interior. In February 1983, the two assistant directorates were merged to promote efficiency and recognize the interdependency of their programs, jerry L. Rogers was selected to direct this newly merged associate directorate
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Logo used for the NRHP.
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Old Slater Mill, a historic district in
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was the first property listed in the National Register on November 13, 1966.
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The
Loren Andrus Octagon House in
Washington, Michigan has been on the NRHP since September 3, 1971.
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Built in 1800 by
Samuel McIntire in
Salem, the
Stephen Phillips House is operated as a
historic house museum by
Historic New England and open for public tours.
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Sioux
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The Sioux /ˈsuː/ are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations peoples in North America. The term can refer to any group within the Great Sioux Nation or to any of the nations many language dialects. The Sioux comprise three major divisions based on divisions, the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota. The Santee Dakota reside in the extreme east of the Dakotas, Minnesota, the Yankton and Yanktonai Dakota, collectively also referred to by the endonym Wičhíyena, reside in the Minnesota River area. They are considered to be the middle Sioux, and have in the past been erroneously classified as Nakota, the actual Nakota are the Assiniboine and Stoney of Western Canada and Montana. The Lakota, also called Teton, are the westernmost Sioux, known for their hunting, the name Sioux was adopted in English by the 1760s from French. It is abbreviated from Nadouessioux, first attested by Jean Nicolet in 1640, the name is sometimes said to be derived from an Ojibwe exonym for the Sioux meaning little snakes. The spelling in -x is due to the French plural marker, the Proto-Algonquian form *na·towe·wa, meaning Northern Iroquoian, has reflexes in several daughter languages that refer to a small rattlesnake. An alternative explanation is derivation from an exonym na·towe·ssiw, from a verb meaning to speak a foreign language. The current Ojibwe term for the Sioux and related groups is Bwaanag, presumably, this refers to the style of cooking the Sioux used in the past. The alternative English spelling of Ogallala is considered improper, the historical Sioux referred to the Great Sioux Nation as the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, meaning Seven Council Fires. Each fire was a symbol of an oyate, the seven nations that comprise the Sioux are, Bdewákaŋthuŋwaŋ, Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ, Waȟpékhute, Sisíthuŋwaŋ, the Iháŋkthuŋwaŋ, Iháŋkthuŋwaŋna, and the Thítȟuŋwaŋ. The Seven Council Fires would assemble each summer to hold council, renew kinships, decide tribal matters, the seven divisions would select four leaders known as Wičháša Yatápika from among the leaders of each division. The last meeting of the Seven Council Fires was in 1850, today the Teton, Santee and the Minnesota Dakota, and Yankton/Yanktonai are usually known, respectively, as the Lakota, Eastern Dakota, or Western Dakota. In any of the three dialects, Lakota or Dakota translate to mean friend or ally, referring to the alliance that once bound the Great Sioux Nation. The Dakota are first recorded to have resided at the source of the Mississippi River during the seventeenth century, by 1700 some had migrated to present-day South Dakota. Late in the 17th century, the Dakota entered into an alliance with French merchants, the French were trying to gain advantage in the struggle for the North American fur trade against the English, who had recently established the Hudsons Bay Company. The first recorded encounter between the Sioux and the French occurred when Radisson and Groseilliers reached what is now Wisconsin during the winter of 1659–60
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Sitting Bull, a
Hunkpapa Lakota chief and
holy man, circa 1885
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Siege of New Ulm, August 19, 1862.
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Drawing of the mass hanging of Dakota in
Mankato, Minnesota
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Mass grave for the dead Lakota after massacre of Wounded Knee.
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Ojibwe
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The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, or Chippewa are an Anishinaabeg group of indigenous peoples in North America. They live in Canada and the United States and are one of the largest Indigenous ethnic groups north of the Rio Grande, in Canada, they are the second-largest First Nations population, surpassed only by the Cree. In the United States, they have the fourth-largest population among Native American tribes, surpassed only by the Navajo, Cherokee, the Ojibwe people traditionally have spoken the Ojibwe language, a branch of the Algonquian language family. They are part of the Council of Three Fires and the Anishinaabeg, which include the Algonquin, Nipissing, Oji-Cree, Odawa, the majority of the Ojibwe people live in Canada. There are 77,940 mainline Ojibwe,76,760 Saulteaux and 8,770 Mississaugas, organized in 125 bands, as of 2010, Ojibwe in the US census population is 170,742. Ojibwe are known for their bark canoes, birch bark scrolls, mining and trade in copper. Their Midewiwin Society is well respected as the keeper of detailed and complex scrolls of events, oral history, songs, maps, memories, stories, geometry, and mathematics. The Ojibwe people set the agenda with European-Canadian leaders by signing detailed treaties before they allowed many European settlers into their western areas, in 1745, they adopted guns from the British to defeat the Dakota people in the Lake Superior area, pushing them to the south and west. The exonym for this Anishinaabeg group is Ojibwe and this name is commonly anglicized as Ojibwa or Ojibway. The name Chippewa is an alternative anglicization, although many variations exist in literature, Chippewa is more common in the United States, and Ojibway predominates in Canada, but both terms are used in each country. In many Ojibwe communities throughout Canada and the U. S. since the late 20th century, some 19th-century sources say this name described a method of ritual torture that the Ojibwe applied to enemies. Because many Ojibwe were formerly located around the outlet of Lake Superior, marie for its rapids, the early Canadian settlers referred to the Ojibwe as Saulteurs. Ojibwe who subsequently moved to the provinces of Canada have retained the name Saulteaux. This is disputed since some scholars believe that only the name migrated west, Ojibwe who were originally located along the Mississagi River and made their way to southern Ontario are known as the Mississaugas. The Ojibwe language is known as Anishinaabemowin or Ojibwemowin, and is widely spoken. Today, most of the languages fluent speakers are elders, since the early 21st century, there is a growing movement to revitalize the language, and restore its strength as a central part of Ojibwe culture. The language belongs to the Algonquian linguistic group, and is descended from Proto-Algonquian and its sister languages include Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Cree, Fox, Menominee, Potawatomi, and Shawnee among the northern Plains tribes. Anishinaabemowin is frequently referred to as a Central Algonquian language, however, Ojibwemowin is the fourth-most spoken Native language in North America after Navajo, Cree, and Inuktitut
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Five Ojibwe chiefs in the 19th century.
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An Ojibwe named Boy Chief, by the noted American painter
George Catlin, who made portraits at
Fort Snelling in 1835. In 1845 he traveled to Paris with eleven Ojibwe, who had their portraits painted and danced for
King Louis Philippe.
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Plains Ojibwe Chief
Sha-có-pay (The Six). In addition to the northern and eastern woodlands, Ojibwe people also lived on the prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, North Dakota, western Minnesota and Montana.
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Vision quest
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Vision Quest is a 1985 American coming-of-age drama film starring Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino and Ronny Cox. It is based on Terry Davis novel of the same name, Modine plays a Spokane high school wrestler who falls in love with an older woman, an aspiring artist from New Jersey on her way to San Francisco. The film includes an appearance by Madonna, her first in a motion picture, playing a singer at a local bar. In some countries, the title of the film was changed to market on Madonnas emerging fame, the film was shot in Spokane, Washington, in the fall of 1983. In this coming-of-age story, Louden Swain is a high school wrestler who has just turned eighteen and decided that he needs to do something truly meaningful in his life. In his zeal to drop from 190 pounds to 168 pounds, against the wishes of his coach and teammates, he disrupts the team around him and creates health problems of his own. Meanwhile, his father has taken on a boarder named Carla from Trenton, New Jersey, though she is older, Louden begins to fall in love with her and begins to lose sight of his goals as a wrestler. Worse, his weight loss culminates in an unhealthy situation in which he gets frequent nosebleeds due, Louden claims. He and Carla finally admit their love for one another, and she decides to move out and continue on to San Francisco, but not before seeing Loudens big match in which he defeats Shute in the final seconds with an over-under hip toss. C. Quinn as Elmo R. H. Interior cafeteria scenes were filmed at Ferris High School on Spokanes South Hill, some of the locker room scenes were filmed in the boys locker room of Shadle Park High School in northwest Spokane. Madonnas scene was filmed at the Big Foot Tavern on North Division Street in Spokane, other scenes were shot at The Onion Restaurant downtown and the North Central High School gym. The film had moderate success in theaters in the U. S. in 1985, the soundtrack does not include the background instrumental music by Tangerine Dream, which was released on the fan project Tangerine Tree 73, Soundtrax. The album peaked at #11 in the Billboard charts, in 2009, interest in a remake was generated after Taylor Lautner of Twilight fame expressed interest. E. News claimed a script existed which Lautner reportedly approved, Vision Quest at the Internet Movie Database Vision Quest at AllMovie Vision Quest at Box Office Mojo
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Theatrical release poster
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Fort Snelling
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Fort Snelling, originally known as Fort Saint Anthony, was a military fortification located at the confluence of Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, a National Park Service unit, Fort Snelling also refers to an unorganized territory in Hennepin County, Minnesota, containing the former fortification. The Census in 2000 enumerated a population of 442. The Minnesota Historical Society now runs the fort, located atop a bluff along the river, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources runs Fort Snelling State Park, protecting the land at the bottom of the bluff. Fort Snelling once encompassed both parcels, the fort is a National Historic Landmark and has been named a national treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Lieutenant Zebulon Pike in 1805 acquired Pikes Purchase for the United States, significant settlement began in the late 1810s. Following the War of 1812, the United States Department of War built a chain of forts and these forts primarily protected the northwestern territories from Canadian and British encroachment. The Army founded Fort Saint Anthony in 1819, colonel Josiah Snelling commanded the 5th Infantry Regiment. Its soldiers constructed the original Fort Saint Anthony from 1820 to 1824, during construction, most soldiers lived at Camp Coldwater, which provided drinking water to the fort throughout the 19th century. The post surgeon began recording meteorological observations at Fort Saint Anthony in January 1820, upon its completion in 1825, the Army renamed the fort as Fort Snelling in honor of its commander and architect. At Fort Snelling, the garrison attempted to keep the peace between the Dakota people. Colonel Snelling suffered from dysentery, and bouts of the illness made him susceptible to anger. Recalled to Washington, he left Fort Snelling in September 1827, colonel Snelling died in summer 1828 from complications due to dysentery and a brain fever. John Marsh, a native of Danvers, Massachusetts, came to the fort during the early 1820s, at the fort, he set up the first school for children of the officers. He also developed a relationship with the local Sioux tribe. He had been studying medicine at Harvard for two years before deciding to leave school without earning a degree and he used this opportunity to read medicine under the tutelage of the post physician, Dr. Purcell. The physician died before Marsh completed the course, so he still had no medical degree. In 1830 Fort Snelling was the birthplace of John Taylor Wood, John Emerson purchased the slave Dred Scott in Saint Louis, Missouri, but he later worked and lived at Fort Snelling during much of the 1830s, having brought Dred and his wife Harriet Scott with him
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Fort Snelling
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Fort Snelling in 1844, by John Caspar Wild (Minnesota Historical Society)
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Fort Snelling Administration building, built 1878
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Bridge linking Ft. Snelling with
St. Paul, 1880–1912
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Sutler
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A sutler or victualer is a civilian merchant who sells provisions to an army in the field, in camp, or in quarters. Sutlers sold wares from the back of a wagon or a temporary tent, Sutlers wagons were associated with the military while chuck wagons served a similar purpose for civilian wagon trains and outposts. The word came into English from Dutch, where it appears as soetelaar or zoetelaar and it meant originally one who does dirty work, a drudge, a scullion, and derives from zoetelen, a word cognate with suds, seethe and sodden. These merchants often followed the armies of the American Revolution and the American Civil War to try to sell their merchandise to the soldiers and they frequently operated near the front lines and their work could be dangerous-at least one sutler was killed by a stray bullet during the Civil War. Sutlers, frequently the only suppliers of non-military goods, often developed monopolies on simple commodities like tobacco, coffee, or sugar. Since government-issued coinage was scarce during the Civil War, sutlers often conducted using a particular type of Civil War token known as a sutler token. Sutlers played a role in the recreation of army men between 1865 and 1890. Sutlers stores outside of military posts were also open to non-military travelers and offered gambling, drinking. In modern use, sutler often describes businesses that provide period uniforms and supplies to reenactors and these businesses often play the part of historical sutlers while selling modern-day goods at reenactments. Vivandière Camp follower This article incorporates text from a now in the public domain, Chisholm, Hugh. Civil War Sutlers and Their Wares, butler, Anne M. Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery, Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-90, University of Illinois Press, 137-139
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Sutler's tent at the
Siege of Petersburg during the
American Civil War
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Franklin Steele
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Franklin Steele was an early and significant settler of Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. Born in Chester County, Pennsylvania of Scottish descent, Steele worked in the Lancaster post-office as a young man, where he once met James Buchanan. At that time, the land on both sides of the Mississippi River at St. Anthony Falls was controlled by the U. S. Government as part of the Fort Snelling Reservation, however, by 1837 over 150 squatters had staked unofficial claims on fort property. In 1838, the commander, Joseph Plympton convinced the government to release the east bank of the river for settlement. But Steele surreptitiously staked the first claim on the choicest land before sunrise on the first day of legal settlement, Steeles sister, Abbian, would marry a prominent physician, Thomas R. Potts in 1847. Potts would become the first Mayor of St. Paul, eventually, in 1847, Steele secured financing, in the form of $12,000 for a 9/10 stake in the property. On May 18,1848 president Polk approved the claims made in St. Anthony, the dam extended diagonally into the river 700 feet, was 16 feet high, and was secured to the limestone riverbed. Its thickness tapered from 40 feet wide at its base to 12 feet wide at the top, Steele dispatched logging crews to the Crow Wing River in December 1847 to supply pine for the his sawmill, and by September 1,1848 sawing commenced using two up-down saws. He was able to sell the lumber readily, supplying construction projects in the booming town, the new community at the Falls attracted entrepreneurs from New England, many of whom had experience in lumber and milling. He had hired Ard Godfrey to help build and run the first commercial sawmill at the Falls, Godfrey knew the most efficient ways to use natural resources, like the falls, and the great pine forests, to make lumber products. Godfrey built the first home in St. Anthony, Steele had the town platted in 1849, although St. Anthony was beginning to prosper, the west side of the Mississippi remained firmly under the control of Fort Snelling. Steele knew that whoever could stake their claim on the west bank of St. Anthony Falls would control the half of the vast source of water power. Late in 1849, Steele convinced his friend John Stevens to negotiate a deal to secure 160 acres in present-day Minneapolis, in exchange, Stevens would ferry troops across the river to supply the new Fort Ripley. In the summer of 1851 the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux was negotiated wresting nearly all remaining Minnesotan land from the Indians, in 1852 Congress passed a bill to relinquish 26,000 acres of Ft. Snelling, opening the door for the ultimate development of Minneapolis. By 1854,300 squatters occupied the area, and in 1855 Congress recognized the right to purchase the land they had claimed. The west side quickly developed scores of new mills and consortia and they built a dam diagonally into the river to the north, which, along with Steeles dam created the inverted V-shape, still apparent today. Steele created the St. Anthony Falls Water Power Company in 1856 with three New York financiers, the company struggled for several years, due to poor relations with the financiers, a depression, and the Civil War. In 1868 the firm reorganized with new officers including John Pillsbury, Richard and Samuel Chute, Sumner Farnham, the two communities of Minneapolis and St. Anthony shared the resources of the Falls
Franklin Steele
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Franklin Steele
Franklin Steele
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Looking northeast across the river ca. 1868
Franklin Steele
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Steele's first
bridge ca. 1865
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Hennepin Island tunnel
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The tunnel ran downstream from Nicollet Island, beneath Hennepin Island, and exited below St. Anthony Falls. During construction of the tunnel, on October 5,1869, the rushing river scoured the tunnel, caving in parts of Hennepin Island and causing the earth supporting St. Anthony Falls to collapse upstream. There was serious concern that the riverbed would crumble and reduce St. Anthony Falls to a set of rapids. However, within a few weeks, dams were built to divert the river, the fix was temporary as the 1870 spring floods damaged some of the new dams and swept away more of Hennepin Island. By the fall of 1870, the riverbed and banks were stabilized, the site of the tunnel is about a mile upstream from the 2007 collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge. Hennepin Island was named after explorer, Catholic priest, and Franciscan missionary Louis Hennepin, the tunnel was to be part of a system of waterworks that supported the industries driving Minneapolis growth. The project was designed to create more industry on Nicollet Island through the waterpower, St. Anthony Falls are made up of a hard limestone cap over soft sandstone. 10,000 years ago the falls were located near present-day Fort Snelling, in 1868, workers began to dig a 2, 500-foot -long tunnel beneath the riverbed from Nicollet Island downstream under Hennepin Island, exiting below the falls. For the next year, workers dug in the sandstone beneath the thin layer of limestone that forms the rivers bed. However, by October 1869, water seeping into the tunnel from above. On October 5,1869, the river broke through the layer of limestone separating the rivers bed from the tunnel. The rushing river scoured the tunnel, caving in parts of Hennepin Island, there was immediate, serious concern that the riverbed would crumble and reduce St. Anthony Falls to a long set of rapids. Through the streets, hurrying hundreds were seen on their way to the falls, work started immediately to plug the tunnel and hundreds of volunteers used timbers and stones. However, the river easily washed out of the tunnel. Within a few weeks, the plug held and dams were built to divert the river, the fix was temporary and the 1870 spring floods tore up some of the new dams and swept away more of Hennepin Island. In addition, the earth support below the Summit flour mill, Moultons planing mill, by the fall of 1870, the riverbed and banks were stabilized and a wooden apron capped St. Anthony Falls to stop the upstream progression of the collapsing falls. The apron buried the falls jagged rocks and large waterfall cataract, the tremendous damage caused by the Hennepin Island tunnel brought lawsuits and demands for political change. A central issue at that time was whether local taxpayers should pay for repairs that would enrich riverfront industrialists, the tunnel collapse was one of the factors leading to the merger of St. Anthony with Minneapolis in 1872
Hennepin Island tunnel
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1869 Hennepin Island tunnel collapse near
St. Anthony Falls.
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Gilded Age
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The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The early half of the Gilded Age roughly coincided with the portion of the Victorian era in Britain. It began as the US Reconstruction Era ended in 1877, the Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. As American wages were higher than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers. The rapid expansion of industrialization led to real wage growth of 60% between 1860 and 1890, spread across the ever-increasing labor force, the average annual wage per industrial worker rose from $380 in 1880 to $564 in 1890, a gain of 48%. Railroads were the growth industry, with the factory system, mining. Immigration from Europe and the eastern states led to the growth of the West. Labor unions became important in the rapidly growing industrial cities. Two major nationwide depressions—the Panic of 1873 and the Panic of 1893—interrupted growth, the South after the Civil War remained economically devastated, its economy became increasingly tied to cotton and tobacco production, which suffered from low prices. With the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877, African-American people in the South were stripped of political power, the political landscape was notable in that despite some corruption, turnout was very high and national elections saw two evenly matched parties. The dominant issues were cultural, and economic, with the rapid growth of cities, political machines increasingly took control of urban politics. In business, massive, powerful and wealthy trusts formed, unions crusaded for the 8-hour working day and the abolition of child labor, middle class reformers demanded civil service reform, prohibition, and womens suffrage. Local governments across the North and West built public schools chiefly at the elementary level, the numerous religious denominations were growing in membership and wealth, the Catholics moving to the largest totals. They all expanded their missionary activity to the world arena, Catholics and Lutherans set up parochial schools and the larger denominations set up numerous colleges, hospitals and charities. Many of the problems faced by society, especially the poor, the term Gilded age was applied to the era by historians in the 1920s, who took the term from one of Mark Twains lesser known novels, The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today. The book satirized the promised golden age after the American Civil War, in the 1920s and 30s Gilded Age became a designated period in American history, with the term applied to the post Civil War period up to 1900. For them, Gilded Age was a term used to describe a time of materialistic excesses combined with extreme poverty. The early half of the Gilded Age roughly coincided with the portion of the Victorian era in Britain
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"
The Breakers," a Gilded Age mansion in
Newport, Rhode Island
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May 10, 1869 Celebration of completion of the
First Transcontinental Railroad.
Gilded Age
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Scottish immigrant
Andrew Carnegie led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry.
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New York police violently attacking unemployed workers in
Tompkins Square Park, 1874.
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Minneapolis BNSF Rail Bridge
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It is located adjacent to the current Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. It was built in 1893 by the Great Northern Railway and remodeled in 1926 and it replaced a bridge built at the same location in 1867 for the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. This was the first Mississippi river railroad crossing in Minneapolis, in 1963, two of the girder spans and a pier were removed, and a Petit truss span was added in its place. This was done to allow upstream navigation past St. Anthony Falls for barges, the Petit truss design is unusual for the Mississippi River and is one of three on the island. The south side of the bridge has an unusual protrusion coming out of it, there was once a curved bridge coming off the end going to the Minneapolis Union Depot. When passenger service was discontinued from downtown Minneapolis and West River Parkway was built, the curve, the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad eventually became the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway, then Great Northern Railway, Burlington Northern and eventually the BNSF Railway. It currently serves the branches to Willmar and Monticello, as well as providing access to interchange for the Twin Cities, with the opening of Northstar Commuter Rail from its terminus at Target Field, the bridge once again carries passenger traffic. Climbing the Mississippi River Bridge by Bridge, Volume Two, Minnesota, media related to Minneapolis BNSF Rail Bridge at Wikimedia Commons
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A look at the bridge from the north side, from the west bank of the river.
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Lasallian Brothers
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The Brothers of the Christian Schools is a Roman Catholic religious teaching congregation, founded in France by Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, and now based in Rome. The Brothers use the post-nominal abbreviation F. S. C. to denote their membership of the order, the Lasallian Christian Brothers are not the same order as the Irish Christian Brothers. The central administration of the Brothers operates out of the Generalate in Rome and is made up of the Superior General, a number of Lasallian institutions have been accused of, and have admitted and apologised for, longstanding and serious physical and sexual abuse against their charges. The order was founded by Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, a French priest from a wealthy family, in March,1679, La Salle met Adrian Nyel in a chance encounter at the Convent of the Sisters of the Infant Jesus. Nyel asked for De La Salles help in opening schools for the poor boys in Reims. A novitiate and normal school were established in Paris in 1694, La Salle spent his life teaching poor children in parish charity schools, and was canonized as a saint on 15 May 1900. In 1950 Pope Pius XII declared him to be the Special Patron of All Teachers of Youth in the Catholic Church, the order, approved by Pope Benedict XIII in 1725, rapidly spread over France. It was dissolved by a decree of the National Assembly set up after the French revolution in February 1790, since then its members penetrated into nearly every country of Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia. As religious, members take the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. The Institutes headquarters is in Rome, Italy, the order has five global regions, North America, Asia/Oceania, Europe/Mediterranean, Africa, and Latin America. During the International Year of Literacy/Schooling, UNESCO awarded the NOMA prize to Lasallian Institutions, the order says that its key principles are faith, proclamation of the gospel, respect for all persons, quality education, concern for the poor and social justice. In 2016 the Institute had 4,100 brothers, 75% fewer than in 1965, the decline is due partly to many brothers reaching retirement age, and the small number of new recruits. In the same period the number of students in Lasallian schools increased from about 700,000 to over a million, La Salle initiated a number of innovations in teaching. He recommended dividing up of the children into distinct classes according to their attainments and he also taught pupils to read the vernacular language. In accordance with their statement to provide a human and Christian education. Especially the poor the Brothers principal activity is education, especially of the poor, as of 2016 the Institute conducted educational work in 80 different countries, in both developed and developing nations, with more than 800,000 students enrolled in its educational works. The Guadalupana De La Salle Sisters were founded by Br, juan Fromental Cayroche in the Archdiocese of Mexico. They currently teach in ten countries, the motherhouse is in Mexico City
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St.
John Baptist de la Salle (also: Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle), (1651–1719), Founder
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DeLaSalle High School
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DeLaSalle High School is a Catholic, college preparatory high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is located on Nicollet Island, DeLaSalle opened in 1900 and has been administered by the Christian Brothers throughout its history. The schools current president is Barry Lieske, AFSC, Lieske has been an administrator at DeLaSalle since 1982 and has served as principal from 1993–2012. Enrollment peaked at 1654 boys in 1964, dropped to the range of 400–500 by the early 1970s despite the 1971–72 advent of co-education, over the past two decades DeLaSalles enrollment has climbed, and the school now receives an average of 400 applications each year for ninth grade admission. Strategic plans from 2000,2007 and 2012 are based upon an optimum overall enrollment of 750–800 students, then-Archbishop John Ireland helped raise money in the late 1800s to build the new Catholic secondary school in Minneapolis. Irelands goal was to provide education to sons of immigrants who were moving into Minneapolis neighborhoods from many European countries, only a few months after groundbreaking, the DeLaSalle Institute building was ready for occupancy. Fifty boys joined three teaching Christian Brothers in the new school in October of 1900, the number of pupils rapidly expanded, and by spring, a fourth Brother had arrived to handle the overcrowding. In those early days, DeLaSalle was a commercial school, through the work of Brother Heraclian, the first graduating class,13 members strong in 1903, all received positions with the leading business firms of Minneapolis before graduating. By 1920, parents were calling for a school that was primarily college preparatory. Construction began in May 1922, and within a year, the new DeLaSalle High School building had opened, within six years, DeLaSalle was accredited as college preparatory by both the University of Minnesota and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. By 1950, enrollment was growing each year, so much so that ninth graders were being educated in a separate building on 46th and Wentworth Avenues in south Minneapolis. The schools administration opened a new residence for the Christian Brothers in 1950, in 1960, in order to bring the freshmen back to the Island, the school opened the third classroom building on campus. The original school building stood until February 1971, when an electrical fire damaged much of the structure. Because enrollment was dropping precipitously at the time, the building was razed. In 1992 the school focused its curriculum only on college preparatory classes, graduation requirements mirror typical college entrance requirements, plus requirements for completion of Christian Service hours and Theology coursework. Placement is available in one of two levels within a department, Honors/Advanced Placement or regular college prep, since 2000, over 97 percent of each graduating class has matriculated to college. De graduates are enrolled in colleges in 36 states, the school was founded to provide a Catholic school option to poor and immigrant families moving into Minneapolis in the late 19th century. This mission continues to this day, to provide a Catholic and college education to students from all family
DeLaSalle High School
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New main entrance and offices of the school
DeLaSalle High School
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Alan Anderson
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Stone Arch Bridge (Minneapolis)
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The Stone Arch Bridge is a former railroad bridge crossing the Mississippi River at Saint Anthony Falls in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the arched bridge made of stone on the entire length of Mississippi River. The bridge was built to connect the system to the new Union Depot. The bridge was completed on 1883, costing an amazing sum of $650,000 during the time,117 Portland Avenue is the general address of the historic complex. For a time, the bridge was dubbed Hills Folly until the value of Hills new bridge as a rail link became evident. The structure is now used as a pedestrian and bicycle bridge and it is an Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 as a part of the Saint Anthony Falls Historic District. In 1880, Minneapolis was a flourishing city with major commerce mostly located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, while smaller. At that time, the Hennepin Avenue bridge was overused and in desperate need of upkeep, the city’s network of railroads, which was crucial for urbanization, was also located on the east side of the river. With the rapid increase in commercialization, Minneapolis businessmen sought a plan to accommodate the flow of traffic. The idea was to build a depot, similar to the St. The initial planning was conducted during a meeting held near the end of 1881, the stockholders met for the first time immediately the following year and Col. Charles C. Smith was selected as the head engineer. The bridge has been altered somewhat from its original appearance, when the lock and dam was built at Saint Anthony Falls, two of the arches were replaced with a truss so barges could pass through the locks. Later, in 1965, flood waters undermined three of the piers and caused the bridge to sag fourteen inches, the bridge was repaired by strengthening the piers and reinforcing underneath two of the arches. When it was in service, the bridge carried trains of many railroads to and from the Minneapolis Great Northern Depot. The bridge ceased to be used as a bridge in 1978. The most recent renovations—including indirect lighting—were completed in late 2005, the lighting was paid for by private donations. During the summer months, the Stone Arch Bridge is a focus of festivals in the area of St. Anthony Main. The Stone Arch Festival of the Arts occurs Fathers Day weekend, fireworks displays on the Fourth of July and during the Minneapolis Aquatennial in late July also bring crowds, fireworks are launched from nearby Hennepin Island
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A view of the Stone Arch Bridge from near river level.
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Under construction in 1883
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Stone Arch Bridge During Construction
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Stone arch bridge c1905
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Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company
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Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company was an American flour milling company that operated about one quarter of the mills in Minneapolis when the city was the flour milling capital of the world. Formed as an entity, Northwestern produced flour for the half century between 1891 and 1953, when its A Mill was converted to storage and light manufacturing. At its founding, Northwestern was the citys and the second largest flour milling company after Pillsbury. The company was touched by an attempt at U. S. monopoly and became part of a Minneapolis oligopoly that valued in 1905 owned almost 9% of the countrys flour and grist products. Technological advances in flour milling were already in place by the 1880s, from that point on and for the next 50 years, mergers and changes in business administration were the primary developments in the industry. Bassett was vice president, C. T, fox was secretary and treasurer, and Fred C. Pillsbury, E. Zeidler and Albert C, the company grew to nine mills and several elevator and storage facilities. Lorings father Charles M. Loring was one of the directors, Northwesterns first decade was marked by financial instability because its founders paid too much for its properties and suffered from lack of capital. A reorganization followed in 1895 that somewhat alleviated the companys problems, Northwestern, though, was the only company they acquired. Milling in 1900 reorganized and became the Standard Milling Company with Northwestern as a subsidiary, by combining six mills, Northwesterns capacity was the second largest in the world at the time of its founding, after the giant Pillsbury-Washburn, and slightly more than Washburn, Crosby. By 1900, these three companies were an oligopoly holding 97% of the Minneapolis market, in 1928 Washburn, Crosby became General Mills in a merger of U. S. millers and surpassed Pillsbury to become the worlds largest flour milling company. In recent years General Mills acquired Pillsbury, in January 1909, Northwestern opened its state of the art Elevator A, possibly the largest grain elevator ever built of brick. The elevator could hold 1,000,000 bushels of grain and its conveyors could each move 10,000 bushels per hour to the Crown Roller and Standard mills. After the center of U. S. flour milling moved to the east coast, of the 34 Minneapolis flour mills, only four are still standing on the Mississippis west bank. Of the four, the Crown Roller Mill and the Standard Mill were Northwestern mills, Elevator A, now known as the Ceresota Building, and the Crown Roller Mill are in use today as office buildings. The Standard Mill became the Whitney Hotel but is closed, Ceresota is now a brand name of The Uhlmann Company and American Home Foods. History of Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis Public Library, anfinson, Scott F. Archaeology of the Central Minneapolis Riverfront, Part 1 and Part 2
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Railways at Northwestern, left, and General Mills, center right
Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company
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Loading in a
boxcar, 1939
Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company
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"The Million Bushel Elevator,"
Elevator A built in 1908
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Sign for Ceresota
brand flour
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Minneapolis City Hall
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The structure has served as mainly local government offices since it was built, and today the building is 60 percent occupied by the city and 40 percent occupied by the County. The building is owned by the city and county and managed by the Municipal Building Commission. The Commission consists of the chair of the County Board, the mayor of the City of Minneapolis, a member of the County Board, the County Board chair serves as the president of the Commission and the mayor serves as the vice president. The building bears a resemblance to the city hall buildings in Cincinnati. The City Hall and Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, the building replaced an earlier City Hall that existed from 1873 until 1912 near the old intersection between Hennepin Avenue and Nicollet Avenue. That structure eventually was razed to make way for Gateway Park, the building also replaced an earlier courthouse and also the earlier Hennepin County Jail, which was located where U. S. The building, located at 350 South Fifth Street, is an example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, the design is based upon Henry Hobson Richardsons Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Washington School, the first schoolhouse in Minneapolis west of the Mississippi River, was demolished to make way for the new building, groundbreaking took place in 1889, and the cornerstone was laid in 1891. Construction did not officially end until 1906, although the exterior was essentially complete by the end of 1895. The county began moving in to its side in November 1895, cost was about $3,554,000, which works out to 28¢ per cubic foot. When constructed, the claimed to have the worlds largest four-faced chiming clock. At 24 feet,6 inches, the faces are 18 inches wider than those of the Great Clock in London, the tower housing the clock reaches 345 feet in height, and was the tallest structure in the city until the 1920s when the Foshay Tower was built. A 15-bell chime in the tower is played regularly, with noontime concerts provided to the public on holidays and on Fridays, the chime was originally 10 bells, and it was first played on March 10,1896. The building is built of granite quarried in Ortonville, with many stones greater than 20 tonnes in weight. The granite was originally going to be used for the foundation of the building. However, the public appreciated the appearance of the foundation so much that they lobbied for the building to be made of granite. This may be a reason for the significant cost overruns — it was expected to cost only $1.15 million. Unlike most buildings in downtown Minneapolis, there arent any skyways connecting the city hall to the rest of the city, since exterior alterations are not allowed for buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, tunnels were constructed instead
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Minneapolis City Hall-Hennepin County Courthouse
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City council chambers around 1900
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City Hall with current copper roof
Minneapolis City Hall
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The "Father of Waters" sculpture
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Gateway District (Minneapolis)
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The Gateway District of Minneapolis is centered at the convergence of Hennepin Avenue, Nicollet Avenue, and Washington Avenue. Its borders are not officially designated or recognized, but are visible as the Mississippi River to the northeast, First Avenue North to the northwest, and Fourth Street South to the southwest. The district includes a significant part of the Downtown West neighborhood, an early courthouse and city hall were located in a triangle-shaped building in between Washington, Hennepin and, Nicollet from 1873 to 1912. Some of the permanent structures on the West side of Minneapolis were built directly across from that building. The Gateway District was given such a name in hopes of revitalizing it at the turn of the 20th century, james Hotel, the Boston Block, and the Metropolitan building. A Depression-era renewal attempt brought the Minneapolis Main Post Office and Pioneer Square, the area remains as the historic core of the city, although much of that history was demolished in an Urban Renewal act during the late 1950s. The Metropolitan Building, demolished in 1961, is the most lamented loss of the area, the area now boasts some of the citys finest examples of modern architecture. Voya Financial currently occupies the former Northwestern Insurance Building, which occupies four blocks of the Gateway, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis was located in a suspension building at the terminus of the Nicollet Mall. It is now located on the Mississippi riverbank across Hennepin Avenue from the central Minneapolis post office, with the construction of the new Central Library for the Minneapolis Public Library system, the old gateway has become a target for developers and planners. Former Minneapolis mayor R. T. Rybak had proposed a park, trees and a 10-year action plan for Washington Avenue. On Feb.4,2015, city planners recommended that the City Council approve selling the former Nicollet Hotel block to United Properties, a holding of the Pohlads. The proposed development, 36-story tower and hotel complex dubbed The Gateway, still requires a City Council vote, history of Minneapolis, Minnesota Mpls, Long Gone, The Gateway, hundreds of photos of old buildings in the area since demolished
Gateway District (Minneapolis)
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Hennepin Avenue 2007
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Grain Belt Beer
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Grain Belt is a brand of beer brewed in the American state of Minnesota, by the August Schell Brewing Company. The beer has been produced in a number of varieties, Grain Belt Golden was the original style introduced in 1893. It was originally produced by the Minneapolis Brewing Company which formed with the merger of four smaller brewers in 1891, soon after introduction, Grain Belt became the companys flagship product. It was brewed at the original Grain Belt brewery in Minneapolis, a series of other owners followed, and Schell took over the product line in 2002. The name refers to the Grain Belt of the American Midwest where much of the supply of barley, corn, soybeans. The diamond-shaped logo was introduced early on, though it wasnt until the late 1930s that a rendering of a bottlecap was added as background, after prohibition a large billboard was erected on Nicollet Island next to the Hennepin Avenue Bridge around 1940. For years, it flashed the letters in sequence and this sign still stands today as a local landmark. Grain Belt introduced cap-sealed conetop cans in the 1930s, at the same time, the company offered its beers in longneck bottles and on draft. Grain Belt Golden, a traditional golden German-style lager, was popular, Grain Belt Beer returned to taverns in October 1933 with bottled beer reappearing in December 1933. A premium beer, called Grain Belt Premium, entered production in 1947, conetop cans sealed with caps disappeared in the 1950s in favor of flat-top steel cans. Grain Belt also took over the line of the New Ulm, the companys main slogan — intoned by a deep male voice on TV ads — was, Been a long time a-brewing. Eventually Grain Belt introduced a new beer called GBX Malt Liquor, for many years, the company also brewed Grain Belt Bock Beer for limited release in the spring. Grain Belt billboard signs could be seen on the scoreboard at Minnesota Vikings games, the label featured the image of a bubbling water fountain, which had been built on the park-like grounds of the brewery to tout the pure water used in the brewing process. Another ad slogan was, From perfect brewing water, at the end of the 1960s, Grain Belt was the 18th-largest brewing company in the US, and a major force in the Midwest. Business began to decline as better-capitalized national brewing companies such as Anheuser-Busch, Schlitz, in 1975, stockholders decided to sell the Grain Belt company to area businessman Irwin Jacobs, and operation ceased by the end of the year. At the St. Paul facility, former rivals Grain Belt and Schmidt were brewed side by side with Heileman stablemates Old Style, Heileman also launched a low calorie version of Grain Belt called Grain Belt Light. G. Heileman found itself faltering within a decade because of many of the same market pressures Grain Belt Breweries had faced in the 1970s, a group of investors was formed to purchase the Schmidt plant from Heileman. They also negotiated to buy the Grain Belt product line so they would have a recognizable, the new company was called the Minnesota Brewing Company 1991
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The landmark Grain Belt sign on
Nicollet Island in
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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A Grain Belt beer can
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Minneapolis Brewing Company
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Neon signs
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In the signage industry, neon signs are electric signs lighted by long luminous gas-discharge tubes that contain rarefied neon or other gases. They are the most common use for lighting, which was first demonstrated in a modern form in December 1910 by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show. While they are used worldwide, neon signs were extremely popular in the United States from about 1920–1960, the installations in Times Square, many originally designed by Douglas Leigh, were famed, and there were nearly 2000 small shops producing neon signs by 1940. In addition to signage, neon lighting is now used frequently by artists and architects, the signage industry has declined in the past several decades, and cities are now concerned with preserving and restoring their antique neon signs. The neon sign is an evolution of the earlier Geissler tube, when a voltage is applied to electrodes inserted through the glass, an electrical glow discharge results. Geissler tubes were popular in the late 1800s, and the different colors they emitted were characteristics of the gases within. They were, however, unsuitable for lighting, the pressure of the gas inside typically declined in use. The discovery of neon in 1898 included the observation of a brilliant red glow in Geissler tubes, immediately following neons discovery, neon tubes were used as scientific instruments and novelties. From December 3–18,1910, Claude demonstrated two 12-metre long bright red neon tubes at the Paris Motor Show and this demonstration lit a peristyle of the Grand Palais. Claudes associate, Jacques Fonsèque, realized the possibilities for a business based on signage, by 1913 a large sign for the vermouth Cinzano illuminated the night sky in Paris, and by 1919 the entrance to the Paris Opera was adorned with neon tube lighting. In 1923, Georges Claude and his French company Claude Neon introduced neon gas signs to the United States by selling two to a Packard car dealership in Los Angeles, earle C. Anthony purchased the two signs reading Packard for $1,250 apiece. Neon lighting quickly became a fixture in outdoor advertising. Visible even in daylight, people would stop and stare at the first neon signs for hours, the next major technological innovation in neon lighting and signs was the development of fluorescent tube coatings. Jacques Risler received a French patent in 1926 for these, Neon signs that use an argon/mercury gas mixture emit a good deal of ultraviolet light. When this light is absorbed by a fluorescent coating, preferably inside the tube, while only a few colors were initially available to sign designers, after the Second World War phosphor materials were researched intensively for use in color televisions. About two dozen colors were available to sign designers in the 1960s, and today there are nearly 100 available colors. Neon tube signs are produced by the craft of bending glass tubing into shapes, a worker skilled in this craft is known as a glass bender, neon bender or tube bender. The neon tube is made out of 4–5 straight sticks of hollow glass sold by sign suppliers to neon shops worldwide where they are assembled into individual custom designed and fabricated lamps
Neon signs
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1937 neon marquee sign for a theater in
Auburn, California, as rebuilt in 2006. The large letters on the tower are illuminated in a timed sequence that repeats, "S", "ST",..., "STATE", off.
Neon signs
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Neon sign
Neon signs
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1930s neon sign dealer,
Anson Brown Building,
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Neon signs
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An enormous number of colors can be created by combinations of different gases and fluorescent coatings in the tube.
