Minneapolis is a

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located along US 19-E in Avery County,

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, United States. It shares its name with two other cities nationwide: another small town in Kansas, and the much larger and more famous city of

Minneapolis Minneapolis is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 429,954 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the state's List of cities in Minnesota, most populous city. Locat ...

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, that state's largest city.

History

As early as 1904, the

East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad The East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad , affectionately called the "Tweetsie" as a verbal acronym of its initials (ET&WNC) but also in reference to the sound of its steam whistles, was a primarily narrow gauge railroad established ...

went through the community of Minneapolis, but bypassed it as it traveled between

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and Montezuma. In 1910 a depot was built, mainly to service a sawmill and

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factory; in 1937, the depot was abandoned, but flag stops still continued till 1940. After the rails were removed, the railway bed became the foundation for ''Old Toe River Road''.

References

Unincorporated communities in North Carolina Unincorporated communities in Avery County, North Carolina Populated places established in 1910 {{AveryCountyNC-geo-stub

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