Klarinet Archive - Posting 000080.txt from 2004/05

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: RE: [kl] Premiere of Among Friends
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 14:57:35 -0400

OT, but ever curious...

I consulted a tour book (AAA). It says that the two cities "grew up
together" on opposite sides of the Mississippi, rather than splitting
apart from a parent city.

St. Paul's was originally named "Pig's Eye" because the federal
government drove some settlers away from government land (Ft. Snelling).
The displaced settlers were led by a man named Pierre "Pig's Eye"
Parrant, who was "a wild French Canadian whiskey trader." A priest
named Father Lucien Galtier built a log-cabin chapel to his patron saint
St. Paul. He convinced the settlers to adopt the more subdued name.

Meanwhile soldiers from Ft. Snelling built a saw mill and flour mill on
the east bank of the river, and a village sprang up. It was called St.
Anthony until they built a suspension bridge to a small town on the west
bank. The two towns choose a new name, Minneapolis. "Minne" is an
Indian word for "water" and "Polis" is a Greek word for "city".

....isn't history fun?

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