Language: English
minnesotas first attempt to create a state park came in  when a -acre  ha park was authorized to preserve minnehaha falls the effort was delayed by legal appeals from the various landowners of the desired parkland and by the time those were settled in favor of the state in  minnesota no longer had the money to purchase the land instead the city of minneapolis fronted the cash owned and operated by minneapolis minnehaha state park was ultimately absorbed as a city park