Part 60 (1/2)

Murphy, John W North, J P Wilson, and John G Lennon During this year the west half of sec 14, range 29, was surveyed and platted into town lots by W R Marshall, B W Bronson and S P Folsom Anson Northrup commenced the erection of the first hotel, the St Charles

John Rollins was elected to the territorial council, W R Marshall and Was to the house of representatives The district was comprised of St Anthony Falls and Little Canada

The first school was taught by Miss Electa Bachus, in the summer of 1849 A post office was established and Ard Godfrey was appointed postht in John Rollins'

passenger wagon In 1850 Willoughby & Powers ran a daily stage line froularly John W

North built a dwelling on Nicollet island, which became a social centre, and was made attractive by a piano In 1850 a public library was established, the first in Minnesota Rev E D Neill, the historian of Minnesota, delivered the first public lecture and preached the first ser year, the Baptists, Methodists, Congregationalists and Presbyterians organized societies, and in 1851 the Episcopalians and Universalists Ae Isaac Atwater, W W Wales, J

B Bassett, C W Christmas, and Joseph Dean Col Alvaren Allen opened a livery stable The St Anthony _Express_, the first newspaper, was established May 31, 1851; E Tyler, proprietor, Judge I Atwater, editor Measures were taken to locate the university in St Anthony Falls Citizens contributed 3,000 aid to in the erection of the building

Facilities of co country were none of the best, yet communication was early established with the Red River country, a dog train having arrived from Pembina, distant four hundred miles, in sixteen days On this train Kittson, Rolette and Gingras caislature at St Paul as representatives of Pembina county

Franklin Steele, in 1847, established a ferry above the Falls In 1854 the Minnesota Bridge Co of Franklin Steele, H T Wells, R P Russell, and others A handsoe remained in the control of the coislature the value was assessed and Hennepin county purchased the bridge, and it becahfare

April 13, 1855, St Anthony Falls was incorporated as a city with the following officers: Mayor, H T Welles; clerk, W F Brawley; aldermen, B F Spencer, John Orth, Daniel Stanchfield, Edward Lippincott, Caleb W Dorr, and Robert cus

In 1872 St Anthony Falls was annexed to Minneapolis, and placed under the sareat benefit to both cities

ST ANTHONY FALLS

The earliest written descriptions of St Anthony falls were by the Roman Catholic missionaries, Hennepin and LaSalle The former with Accault and Du Gay ascended the river in a canoe until captured by a band of Sioux Indians These Indians left the river at a point now the present site of St Paul and took their prisoners to Mille Lacs In September, when the Indians set out on their annual hunt, the captives were left to go where they pleased Accault preferred re with the Indians Hennepin and Du Gay obtained a small canoe and commenced the descent of the Rum and Mississippi rivers to the falls, then called by the Indians Ka-ka-bi-ka Irara or ”Severed Rock” They reached the falls about the first of October, and naiven by La Salle, a second hand one, was probably derived from Hennepin, Accault or Du Gay, as La Salle did not visit the falls, and these voyageurs were his subordinates, and had been sent by hi up the Mississippi again, twenty leagues above the St Croix is found the falls, which those I sent nah, and the river is narrower here than elsewhere There is a small island in the midst of the chute, and the two banks of the river are bordered by hills which gradually diminish at this point, but the country on each side is covered by thin woods, such as oaks and other hardwoods, scattered wide apart”

This description corresponds very ith the earliest pictures of the falls, which with ”the small island in the ara considerably diht The historic falls have alnizable Spirit island, if this be the island referred to by La Salle as in the midst of the chute, is now so far below the falls that it can scarcely be brought into the same picture with them The falls have undoubtedly receded, by a process easily explained by a geologist, some distance up the river, and have diminished somewhat in altitude Theoff of li sandstone, easily washed fro water, threatened the total obliteration of the cataract unless arrested by artificial means, as the dip or inclination of the rock is such that the altitude of the falls dies: It has been found necessary to strengthen the ledges and prevent further erosion by means of aprons, till the present appearance of the falls is not unsuggestive of a series of dams The entire cost of these improvements has amounted to more than 1,000,000 The shores of the islands and mainlands have been covered with mills and ured by a es, ays and fluinal falls remain to recall their appearance as they hen the sandaled and robed Franciscan, Hennepin, first gazed upon them In the midst of this solitude, and on the banks once covered by a sparse growth of trees, one of the finest cities in the West has sprung up as if by e has occurred within a space of fifty years

MINNEAPOLIS

Fro in 1819, to the settlement of the county in 1840, nuenerally of French or Canadian origin, and not infrequently intermarried with Indians, and semi-Indian in their habits of life, occupied transient homes on or near the military reservation; but these have exercised so little influence upon the developnition or record fro, they disappeared before the er,than the rest, adapted theed in the enterprises of civilized life, and thus obtained an honorable position ast the pioneers of the country

Of these, Joseph R Brown, by far the uished, by permission of the military authorities, located in Hennepin county near the falls of Minnehaha, in 1829 He is the first white settler

Maj Taliaferro, then in command of the Fort, in the same year made a farm on the shores of Lake Calhoun, and placed Philander Prescott in charge In 1834 the Pond brothers, missionaries, located on Lake Calhoun and erected the first dwelling worthy of the name within the present limits of the county of Hennepin In 1849 Philander Prescott made a claim on what is now Minnehaha avenue Frank Steele obtained permission from the secretary of war to occupy this claim, whereupon Mr Prescott abandoned it, andThis he was allowed to retain Charles Mosseaux, by permission of the military authorities, made a claim on Lake Calhoun in 1856 This claim is now occupied by the pavillion Rev E G Gear, chaplain at Fort Snelling, by permission of the military authorities, made a claim near Lake Calhoun and employed Edward Brissett to live upon it Afterward a contest arose as to the ownershi+p Chaplain Gear, by the aid of Judge Black and H M Rice, secured a congressional enactovernment David Gohram made a claim on the Lake of the Isles, but subsequently sold out to R P Russell

John Berry, the Blaisdells, Pierce Lowell and many others located in the vicinity of Lakes Calhoun and Harriet, and in 1853 were followed by settlers on nearly all the lands lying immediately west of the Mississippi, in the vicinity of the falls In 1854 there were twelve farm houses scattered widely from the falls to the vicinity of the lakes It had been evident for some time that a city of considerable pretensions must arise somewhere in the vicinity of the Fort and the falls The locality of the coes of situation, and these were in favor of the locality i the falls, the water power there afforded being a powerful attraction For the first recognition of these advantages we o back to a period several years anterior to the location of these clai point in the history of Minneapolis

In 1820 thehad erected a stone rain shi+pped fro house and cultivated a few acres of adjacent ground This mill, run by the water of the falls, was located a short distance below This was the first utilization of the water power Thesince disappeared, was located on the present site of Sidle, Fletcher & Hol mill In 1854 one saw overnment mill, was located just below the falls It had a capacity of 1,500,000 feet per annules It was under the direction of C King A steam saw mill was built at the mouth of Bassett's creek, above the falls, in 1856, and another the following year, half a reat lu three ate capacity of 75,000,000 feet per annuard to the lands reserved about the Fort, the act of 1839, driving off those who had settled upon theard to the tenure of land claims, acted as an effectual bar to further improvement until ten years later, when Hon Robert Sress from Alton district, Illinois, and Col John H Stevens, the pioneer of Minneapolis, each obtained permits from the secretary of war and the officers of the Fort to occupy one hundred and sixty acres of the reservation Sreed to use in grinding Fort Snelling grain Mr Sed C A

Tuttle to operate the mill and hold the claim Mr Tuttle was to have an interest for his labor This interest he afterward sold to Sovernment relinquished the reservation, transferred his claianized into an association for the entry of land Soon as the entries were completed the land passed into the hands of the Minneapolis Water Power Company, which proceeded at once to improve the water power

Col J H Stevens meanwhile located in person on his permit, and in 1849 built the first fraround now occupied by the union depot J B Bassett purchased the fraction of land on the river above Stevens, Col Ehty where the court house stands, and Edwin Hedderly the fraction below the water power Mr Stevensof 1854; Chas W

Christmas, surveyor

The Smith claim was surveyed by W R Marshall in the fall of 1854 In 1856 Atwater's addition was surveyed Other additions were added frorowth of the city demanded At the release of the reservation in 1855, the entire present site of the city was covered with claims

The na _water_, and a Greek word _polis_, e, Chas Hoag having first suggested the name In March, 1853, the commissioners of Hennepin county adopted the naovernment land office had been established in 1854, of which M L Olds was register and R P

Russell receiver The first, newspaper, the Minneapolis _De the saes, the Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists organized societies, and public schools were established In 1857 the court house, at a cost of 12,000, a school house, and several churches were erected

The village of Minneapolis was organized in 1858 H T Welles was the first president In 1867 Minneapolis obtained a city charter

Minneapolis and St Anthony Falls were united under the saislature, approved Feb 28, 1872, under the nanized in the directory as East Minneapolis The united cities elect in common a mayor and city council, but each is financially responsible as to contracts existing previous to the union, and each maintains its own schools

We append a list of mayors of the two cities prior and subsequent to the union:

MAYORS OF ST ANTHONY FALLS

1855 H T Welles

1856 Alvaren Allen

1857 Wm W Wales