MINNEAPOLIS, a city in s.e. Minnesota, incorporated 1867; enlarged by the annex. ation of the city of St. Anthony, 1872; situated at the falls of St. Anthony, 10 in. w. of St. Paul; pop. '80, 46,887. It is built on a broad plateau, through which flows the Mis sissippi river, overlooked by hold bluffs, which command a view. of the surrounding country, noted for its picturesque scenery. At the falls of St. Anthony the river makes a descent of 50 ft. within a mile (80 ft. within the limits of the city), and has a perpen dicular descent of 18 feet, It is crossed by 4 bridges, including a suspension bridge built in 1876; and in the vicinity are lakes Cedar, Calhoun, aua Harriet. It is supplied by means of the river with extensive water-power, which is utilized by immense manufac tories and mills. The value of the lumber sawed in one year was $2,948,335; that of flour made in one year was $7,320,410. It has grocers who do a business of from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 a year; and large dry-goods and commercial houses. There was expended in the city, for building and improvements, in one year, $1,729,700. The leading industries are lumber and tlour, and among its flour-mills is one with 40 run of stone—the largest in the country. An immense amount of grain is milled; other industries are the manu facture of iron machinery, engines and boilers, water-wheels, agricultural implements, sashes, doors, and blinds, beer, cotton and woolen goods, furniture, barrels, boots and shoes, paper, linseed-oil, etc. It has pork-packing establishments, and a large number of saw-mills. It has been a city of rapid growth, and has an important wholesale trade, which is constantly increasing. It is on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, at the junction of the St. Paul and Pacific and the Lake Superior and Mississippi with the Minneapolis and St. Louis line, all of which roads transport a large amount of
freight, which is increasing yearly. It has a line of steamers to St. Cloud. It is regularly laid out, with avenues 80 ft. wide, crossed by streets at right angles, which are E.4aded by two rows of trees; is lighted by gas; is well sewered; and has a public park. It has 10 wards, a mayor, and board of aldermen of two members from each ward, a police force, and a fire department. There are 11 banks-6 national, with an aggregate capital of $1,025,000. Among public buildings are a court-house, a city hall erected .in 1873, an academy of music, and an opera-house., There are 65 churches. The athenreum has a library of 8,000 vols. Minneapolis is the seat of the university of Minnesota (non• sectarian, and open to both sexes), organized in 1868, and having a library- of 10,000 vols.; and the Augsburg theological seminary- (Lutheran), established by the Scandinavians of the n. vv., with a library of 1100 vols.; also Hamline university Methodist). It has 14 newspapers--2 Norwegian, 1 German; and 2 semi-monthly periodicals, 1 Norwegian. The falls of Minnehaha (laughing water) are 3 m. distant.
3fINNEHAHA, a river and fall in s.e. Minnesota, near the station of 3Iinnehaha on the St. Paul and Pacific railroad, one-half mile from the Mississippi river and a short distance from Minneapolis. Considerable interest attaches to this cascade, it being the scene of a legendary romance wrought into the story of Longfellow's poem of Hiawatha. The river Minnehaha flows over a limestone cliff„making a sudden desceat of 60 ft., and the story, runs that Minnehaha, an Indian maiden crossed in love, liere took the fatal leap. Minnehaha, in Dakota langua,ge, signifies laughing water.