Father Hennepin Bluffs
This was the site from which Father Louis Hennepin, the Franciscan Priest, first viewed the Falls of St. Anthony in June of 1680. He named the falls after his patron saint St. Anthony of Padua.
The famous waterfall was responsible for the birth of Minneapolis. The cataract is the most abrupt drop in the 2,200 mile course of the Mississippi River.
This immediate ground, which commemorates St. Anthony Falls, was the former Lucy Wilder Morris Park. The original size of the area was three-tenths of an acre and is owned by the Hennepin County Historical Society.
During the summer of 1971, this land with the surrounding unused Northern States Power Company acreage was cleaned, revitalized, and open to the public. The entire six acre tract was at that time renamed Father Hennepin Bluffs.
Courtesy hmdb.org
