Photos: St. Anthony Falls and the changing Minneapolis riverfront
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![St. Anthony Falls around 1860](https://img.apmcdn.org/4e1a657d090cc515ce077a235368eb4b5ec15c20/uncropped/222317-20150607-historicfalls01.jpg)
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Courtesy Minnesota History Center
The story of St. Anthony Falls is inextricably tied to the story of Minneapolis, where a city grew up around more than 150 years of attempts — some successful and some disastrous — to yoke the only waterfall of the longest river in North America.
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