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Black and white photograph of visitors below the falls, c.1869.

Two women watching Minnehaha Falls, Minneapolis.

Visitors pose on the bridge below the falls, c.1869.

Minnehaha Falls, Dakota Indians in the foreground

Dakota men pose at the falls for one of the earliest photographs taken there, 1857. Photographer: Benjamin Franklin Upton.

Minnehaha Falls, Minneapolis

The fifty-three-foot-high Minnehaha Falls was purchased by Minneapolis in 1889. It was the centerpiece of a new state park. The falls remain one of the state's most popular attractions for both residents and visitors. Their name is derived from the Dakota words mni for "water" and gaga for "falling" or "curling"—literally "water fall."

Black and white photograph of Loring Cascade, 1920.

Loring Cascade at Glenwood Park, Minneapolis.

Loring Cascade, 1920. Loring donated this artificial waterfall in 1917.

L to R: Sarah Hubbard Heywood Folwell, Mr. Charles M Loring, William Folwell, (front): Margaret and Fritz Chute

Sarah Hubbard Heywood Folwell, Charles M. Loring, and William Watts Folwell, with Margaret and Fritz Chute, 1915.

Loring Park pavilion, Minneapolis.

Loring donated this shelter at Loring Park, 1906.

Charles M. Loring

Charles M. Loring, c.1900.

Loring, Charles Morgridge (1833–1922)

Charles Morgridge Loring is known as the "Father of Minneapolis Parks." As the first president of the Minneapolis park board, he was the one most responsible for acquiring the city's lakes and their shorelines as parks. Loring Park near downtown Minneapolis is named for him.