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Old Portage Trail

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From time immemorial, Indians, traders, and explorers, among them Hennepin and Carver, used the Mississippi River as a highway of travel, unloading their canoes at the bend just below here. They followed the portage trail across what is now the University campus and along the bluffs to a point about a half mile above the Falls of St. Anthony.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota · United States
Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, Minnesota
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