Minneapolis Minnesota History and Cartography (1879) 

"Planing mill" - where they PLANE wood. After sawmilling probably. Lumber.

I work in Minneapolis and am very interested in the history of the city, especially the downtown area. Thanks for going over this old map! There is almost nothing from this map which remains in today's Minneapolis, but I sure see how downtown's main artery streets were laid out very early on!

Sawmills came first and were the primary industry for some time, then the lumber began to dry up and the need for sawmills declined. Meanwhile as this took place the growth in farming in the area created the need for flour mills. Sawmills were eventually replaced by flour mills. It was a natural progression as one came on the heels of the others decline. Also of note, as the grain industry took over, brewery's sprung up by the dozens. The Washburn A mill was the site of a massive explosion around the time this map was made.

I'd like to point out - the river flows West to East, for the most part, through downtown. Which is why people who live in the area or spend a lot of time there use upstream, downstream, downtown and nordeast to describe directions.

Nicollet Island is the only island on the entire Mississippi river with residential housing.

Very cool tour ! Thank you ! I’m visiting there in September 💥

Nice thanks. Glad to know there are other people in the world, especially American people, that find history interesting. Someone below mentioned geeking out on the map, while I consider that an honor, as to post a geeking out on Major League Sports. It's easy to find a football fan in the USA, it's much harder to find a history fan.

I spent my 20s in the Loring Park neighborhood, which wasn't a thing yet according to this map. Loring Pond is there, which I believe was called "Johnson's Lake" back then (don't quote me). It's so interesting how things changed over time. Minneapolis is having a rough go right now. Let's hope that is a mere blip and things will work out for the Mill City.

Washburn=General Mills. There were several Washburn brothers. Washburn HS is named after one of them (supposedly Cadwallader Washburn, but there's some debate about that).

If I were just interested in geeking out on the map, this would be a cool vid. As a presentation of 'neat things happening in historical Minneapolis as portrayed by a map' it's lacking. - I suggest spending 10 minutes picking out cool stuff to show people, plan out your presentation, and then talking about it. That'd serve everyone really well.

Really enjoyed this. Do you have a link to the map by chance?

79 was a lumber planing mill.

Thank you.

nice master plan of a city.

Planing = sawmill. Not “planning”

No. 67 and 69 Washburn-Crosby is the forerunner of today's General Mills.

Nice

Cool map but dude doesn't even know what he doesn't know

Very cool!

Layely feeling like I speak a second language just because I can pronounce MN place names with some Sioux names. Helps to have had phonics. Wow, he's lost in time.

Mid-WAH-tah-khan, correct pronunciation.

W.D. Washburn founded Pillsbury which was later owned by his bro C.C. Washburn who was a major general in the Army that founded General Mills. That's a whole lot of clout and family money! They obviously were brilliant businessman.

Planing = lumber. Those are stacks of lumber.

Cotton mills??

Where can I find this map online? Thanks!

What's the original name of the tribe AGAIN please

slow down.

Just a tip. The sound sucks when I tried listening to this with headphones. So........I didn't watch it😒

I want to see what was here before all of this. Do you have any photos before the white man came in?

#79 is PLANING mill...one 'n' lumber....

planing mill...lumber!

Please less ah's. Good work, to much ah's.

They also have Governor Goofy ! (Dayton)

He's bouncing around too much on the map. I'm getting dizzy.

What a dipstick! He knows little about the particulars.

I thought this was guna be better ,,,, the creators voice is annoying and choppy,,and he doesn’t sound smooth and confident in the subject he’s talking about 👎