Minneapolis
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- Names
Minneapolis
Saint Anthony
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Mississippi River's Falls of St. Anthony in SE central Minnesota; "Twin Cities" with St. Paul as region's largest economic center; named for Dakota Sioux word "minne" (water) & Greek "polis" (city); site visited by Father Hennepin in 1680.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Born
Willard C. Johnson (American, 1902-1990)
Cheryl Laemmle (American, born 1947)
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