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.

2200 W River Pkwy, Minneapolis Free
How to visit: Free, open daily 6 AM to midnight. Self-guided.

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