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2 unusual facts about Saint Anthony Falls


Saint Anthony Falls

In 1680, the falls became known to the Western world when they were observed and published in a journal by Father Louis Hennepin, a Catholic friar of Belgian birth, who also first published about Niagara Falls to the world's attention.

Samuel Peters

1817 : Visited the Falls of St. Anthony, taking up a large claim there, but again settled in New York (1818).


Edina Mill

This was a direct result of the fact that prior to these mills, farmers had to haul their grain in horse-drawn wagons over long distances to the mills at Saint Anthony Falls along the Mississippi River.


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