West Bank, Minneapolis
Vanished immigrant village
Bohemian Flats
A grassy riverbank below the Washington Avenue Bridge where about a thousand Czech, Slovak, and Scandinavian millworkers built a stilt-house village in the 1880s before the city evicted them for a barge terminal in 1931. Almost nothing visible remains, which is part of the point.
Thanks — that shapes the read.
Saves, regulars, and moments shape the Best of MPLS. Been-heres fill your Passport. Anonymous, never sold.