# @mplsdtparks on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C--3KAipbQX
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/31144359-mplsdtparks-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-08-22T18:28:46.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** 🌳Minneapolis Downtown Parks (@mplsdtparks) — https://gondola.cc/mplsdtparks

## Caption

Hear from Park Ambassador, Michelle, all about Water Works Park Pavilion and how Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board has worked to revitalize and reimagine the riverfront in this space! 

From an old Sawmill, to a 1960s restaurant, to laying dormant for 20 years, this site was completed and constructed into Water Works Park and Pavillion at Mill Ruins Park! Just North of the Stone Arch Bride, this park now houses music in the amphitheater, games, rain gardens, a natural playground, and of course, our restaurant partner Owamni by the Sioux Chef. 

People have gathered at Owámniiyomni (St. Anthony Falls) for thousands of years. It was a prime place for encampments by the Dakhóta, Ho-Chunk, and Ojibwe due to the proximity to a place of spiritual power, traditional routes, and locations for harvesting foods such as maple sugar and cranberries. Even after the European settlement of the cities of St. Anthony and Minneapolis, Native peoples continued to stay at the Falls through the 1860s, when they were forcibly relocated to reservations.

Minneapolis grew around industrial development on the Mississippi River. Loggers gathered for work at the city’s saw mills, then some of the world’s largest flour mills were built, harnessing the power of the river as the city continued to grow. Water Works showcases carefully excavated mill remnants from the Bassett Sawmill, which was built in 1870 and burned in 1897, and Columbia Flour Mill, which was built in 1882 and collapsed in 1941.

Stay tuned for a full park tour highlighting these features.

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minneapolistours, downtownminneapolis, parktoursminneapolis, minneapolisparks, thingstodoinminneapolis, stonearchbridge, waterworkspark, millruinspark

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