Cooper

The Cooper neighborhood (part of the larger Longfellow community) resides along West shore of the Mississippi River in South Minneapolis. It is bound by 34th St E on the South, 38th Ave S on the West, 27th St E on the North, and the Mississippi River Gorge to the East. Bordering neighborhoods are Seward to the North, Longfellow to the West, and Howe to the South. St. Paul's Merriam Park neighborhood is just across the Mississippi River to the East. Cooper was named after the 19th century author James Fenimore Cooper, who best known today for writing The Last of the Mohicans (1832). The Mississippi River Gorge is unique to this stretch of the entire Mississippi. The river cut an eighty-plus foot gorge as what is now St. Anthony Falls...