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2 unusual facts about Nicollet Island


Nicollet Island

The south end of the island is home to the Nicollet Island Pavilion event center and the Bell of Two Friends, a gift from the city of Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan.

Nicollet Island/East Bank, Minneapolis

The St. Anthony neighborhood is also home to famous pro-wrestler "Big Show" after he relocated to Minneapolis is 2011.


Northstar Line

At Target Field station, the parallel rail lines of the old Great Northern Railway (north side track now BNSF) and the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway (south side track now Union Pacific) travel eastbound past the Federal Reserve Bank, the site of the old Minneapolis Great Northern Depot, across the Mississippi River on the Minneapolis BNSF Rail Bridge, and then across Nicollet Island.


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