Minneapolis is a city in southeastern Minnesota. The seat of Hennepin County, the city is situated by the Falls of Saint Anthony, around the head of navigation of the Mississippi River. It is the largest city in Minnesota and also among the largest cities at the upper Midwest, and, with the adjacent city of Saint Paul to the east, dominates the economic along with cultural life of this extensive region. Minneapolis along with Saint Paul are famous as the Twin Cities.
Economy
Minneapolis is the center of among the richest agricultural areas of the United States and is a regional hub of transportation, commerce, and finance. Leading industries include medical-instrument manufacturing; medical research; processing of food along with dairy products; printing and also publishing; along with the manufacture of machinery, electrical as well as electronic equipment, metal and paper products, precision instruments, as well as transport machinery. It is a rail as well as highway hub; Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport is situated south of the city.
The area today occupied by Minneapolis was inhabited by the Sioux when the Franciscan missionary Louis Hennepin visited in 1680 and named the Falls of Saint Anthony. In 1820 Fort Snelling was created in the junction of the Minnesota along with Mississippi Rivers, to pave the way for settlers moving west. The area west of the Mississippi was opened for legal settlement in 1855. Minneapolis was incorporated as being a village in 1856 and also as the city in 1867. Its name is derived from the Sioux minne, meaning "water," a reference to the numerous lakes as well as streams of the area, and the Greek polis, meaning "city." Saint Anthony, a community to the east side of the river, was chartered as a village in 1855 and being a city in 1860. In 1872 it became part of Minneapolis.
Early development in Minneapolis was promoted by lumbering within the region's hardwood forests. Later, wheat from the western Minnesota prairies and lumber from the pine along with fir forests of northeast Minnesota sustained the economic boom. German and Scandinavian immigrants account for the city's increased population during this period. Lumber production peaked in 1899 as well as disappeared by 1920 with the exhaustion of forest reserves. By 1870 Minneapolis was among the nation's leading flour producers, having a dozen mills operating on the falls. Flour milling peaked in 1915, then waned as milling companies became diversified food manufacturers. Minneapolis, however, remains a leading grain market. The American Indian Movement (AIM) was organized in Minneapolis in 1968 with the original purpose of providing assistance to the city's Native American population. An aggressive plan of construction and also development transformed much of the downtown area in the 1990s.
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