Minneapolis Real Estate
Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota
and is the county seat of Hennepin County. The city lies on both
banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence
with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital.
Known as the Twin Cities, these two form the core of Minneapolis-St.
Paul, the sixteenth-largest metropolitan area in the United States,
with about 3.2 million residents. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated
the city's population at 369,051 people in 2006. Minneapolis and
Minnesota celebrate their sesquicentennials in 2008. The city's
celebration coincides with the 150th anniversary of its first town
council meeting thought to have been held July 20, 1858.
The city is abundantly rich in water with twenty lakes and wetlands,
the Mississippi riverfront, creeks and waterfalls, many connected
by parkways in the Chain of Lakes and the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway.
Minneapolis was once the world's flour milling capital and a hub
for timber, and today is the primary business center between Chicago,
Illinois, and Seattle, Washington. Among America's most literate
cities, Minneapolis has cultural organizations that draw creative
people and audiences to the city for theater, visual art, writing
and music. The community's diverse population has a long tradition
of charitable support through progressive public social programs
and through private and corporate philanthropy.
The name Minneapolis is attributed to the city's first schoolmaster,
who combined mni, the Dakota word for water, and polis, the Greek
word for city. Minneapolis is nicknamed the "City of Lakes"
and the "Mill City".
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