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DISCLAIMER -
Trespassing is illegal.
Urban exploration is dangerous.
Don't do what we do as you could be seriously hurt, killed, arrested, or all of the above.
TCUR does not promote the activites on this website. Urban Exploration as it is, is a legally questionable activity.
This website serves as a means of safety for people to view Urban Exploration from the safety of their computer. |
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The Amphitheatre is one of a number of storm sewers in the Twin Cities, this one has a unique feature of a outside Amphitheatre on top of it, built in 1921. |
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Funk Brewery opened in 1866, just 10 years after Cave Brewery began next door.
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The Minneapolis Brewery was built by J.G. Kranzlein and J.B. Mueller in 1866. It was at the foot of 4th Street South built into the bluff. |
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The Nicollet Island Tunnels refer to the old Water Main System that is still in use today. Satans Cave is a Manmade Cave that connects with the Water Main. |
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The Eastbank Tailrace Tunnels were built in 1897 as part of the Lower St. Anthony Falls Hydrostation. Today the tailrace still remains but is no longer active, but if you wander around in it long enough you can find it being connected to 3 abandonded sublevels of the current NSP Powerplant.
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THE FIRST BREWERY to make use of the land now occupied by Heilemann's was Christopher Stahlmann's Cave Brewery. Stahlmann's facility was officially opened on July 5, 1855.
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In the early years of the development of Minneapolis and St. Anthony the falls were a popular tourist attraction. By the 1850s lumbermen and millers were interested in the hydro power it offered. In 1857, a great canal was constructed along First Street South to improve the distribution of water to the fast growing milling industry.
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