Minnehaha

a cascade in Minnehaha Creek, the outlet of Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota. Minnehaha Park is situated on the western shore of the Mississippi, below the Falls of St. Anthony, but within the corporate limits of Minneapolis. The cascade falls over a limestone ledge into a wooded glen about sixty feet deep. The glen widens and deepens for about a mile, until it opens into the gorge of the Mississippi. This cascade is the Minnehaha Falls or "Laughing Water" of Longfellow's Hiawatha. The name is said to have been applied by the Dakotas to the Falls of St. Anthony instead. See Hiawatha