Longfellow, Minneapolis Longfellow, Minneapolis Longfellow is a defined community in Minneapolis, Minnesota which includes five smaller neighborhoods inside of it: Cooper, Hiawatha, Howe, Seward, and Longfellow. Grouped with South Minneapolis between the city's eastern border with the Mississippi River and the Metro Blue Line , Longfellow takes its name from Longfellow neighborhood which in turn is named after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The renowned American poet incorporated elements into his poem "The Song of Hiawatha" from Henry Schoolcraft's accounts of native Dakota lore in Minnesota which included Minnehaha Falls in Longfellow's southern tip. The early reference of Highway 55 as Hiawatha Avenue, along
Twin Cities Hiawatha again established a "Twin Cities Hiawatha" as a daily Chicago-Minneapolis train, but ended this service in 1978 with the introduction of the "North Star", a Chicago-Minneapolis-Duluth sleeper. Today, the "Hiawatha" name still lives on with Chicago-Milwaukee Amtrak "Hiawatha Service", and Amtrak's "Empire Builder" traverses the original route of the "Twin Cities Hiawatha" between Chicago and St. Paul. The "Twin Cities Hiawatha" ran on the railroad's main line from Chicago and Milwaukee to St. Paul and Minneapolis. Originally only five intermediate stops were made between Milwaukee and St. Paul. Later other stops were added, as well as Glenview, Illinois between Chicago