
Father Louis Hennepin
He sailed with La Salle through the Great Lakes to explore further west, and in 1680, started a Catholic settlement near the upper falls of the Mississippi River. Hennepin was one of the first Europeans to see the falls, which had held significance for Dakota and Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) people for many years. Hennepin gave the falls their English name, St. Anthony Falls, and European Catholics soon began to settle nearby. Catholic immigration to the region increased in the 1800s.
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