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 School in Minneapolis named after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copied from Longfellow Community School Website.  //The Song of Hiawatha//
 * 1855

//Henry Wadsworth Longfellow never visits Minnesota, but his epic poem// The Song of Hiawatha //immortalizes the Minnesota forests, prairies, and waters he saw only in his imagination.// The famous story attract tourists from around the country to see, in the words of the poem, "Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." ||  ||||||  ||||  ||   || Henry Wadsworth Longfellow increased tourism in Minnesota. Copied form Minnesota Historical Society. Link: http://events.mnhs.org/TimePieces/EventDetail.cfm?EventID=438

 Pipestone Minnesota celebrated Henry Wadsworth's Song of Hiawatha from 1948-2008 with a pageant. The words from "Song of Hiawatha" that led to Pipestone's reason to celebrate-

// On the Mountains of the Prairie, On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry, Gitche Manito, the mighty, He the Master of Life, descending, On the red crags of the quarry Stood erect, and called the nations, Called the tribes of men together // http://www.pipestoneminnesota.com/pageant/history.htm