Hiawatha and Minnehaha and recited parts of Longfellow's poem as part of the program. Fjelde's Hiawatha and Minnehaha sculpture soon became a visitor attraction in the park, and postcards depicting it were widely available. As of 2011, the sculpture remains in its location along Minnehaha Creek and is one of Fjelde's best-known works. Hiawatha and Minnehaha Hiawatha and Minnehaha is a sculpture by Jacob Fjelde that has stood in Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis since the early twentieth century. Now a popular fixture of the park, its placement there was originally controversial. In 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published a book-length poem entitled "The Song
Hiawatha (train) surplus equipment was sold to Canadian National Railways. One car, #15 "Coffee Creek" from the "Olympian Hiawatha", is undergoing restoration. The "Chippewa" began in May 1937, running north through Milwaukee and Green Bay to Channing, Michigan (later extended to Ontonagon). It carried the "Hiawatha" moniker between 1948-1957 and was discontinued in 1960. Under Amtrak, which assumed control of most intercity passenger rail service in the United States on May 1, 1971, the "Hiawatha" name survived in two forms. The first was a Chicago–Milwaukee–Minneapolis service, known simply as the "Hiawatha". This would be renamed the "Twin Cities Hiawatha", then extended to