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 | This infant settlement was destroyed and its inhabitants scattered by an Iroquois raid in c.July 1686. |
| Louis Buisson was placed in charge, and it became known as the Opa post. |
| Depletion of wildlife caused trade to diminish as early as 1827 and because the trapping was done by Indians, the fur trade ended in 1835 with the removal of the Indians. |
| NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Hennepin Avenue Bridge (147 words) |
| The Hennepin Avenue Bridge is the series of spans that have carried Hennepin Avenue across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota at Nicollet Island. |
| Officially, it is the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge, in honor of the 17th-century explorer Louis Hennepin, who discovered the Saint Anthony Falls a short distance downriver. |
| The original crossing, which opened as a toll bridge in on January 23, 1855, is believed to have been the first permanent span across the Mississippi at any point. |
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