Editing Cannon Falls, Minnesota (section)

==History==
[[File:Church of the Redeemer 2013.jpg|upright=.8|thumb|left|Redeemer Episcopal, the oldest church in Cannon Falls]]

The first settler was Edway Stoughton. A Charles Parks settled the land that is now Cannon Falls in July 1854. Cannon Falls village proper was laid out by Richard and [[William Freeborn]] and [[plat]]ted in 1855<ref name="Upham 206">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog | title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance | publisher=Minnesota Historical Society | last=Upham | first=Warren | year=1920 | page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n225 206]}}</ref> by county surveyor S. A. Hart.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title = Goodhue County, Minnesota, Past and Present|last = Hancock|first = Joseph|publisher = Red Wing Print. Company|year = 1893|location = Goodhue County (Minn.)|pages = 256}}</ref>  The village was incorporated March 10, 1857.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title = History of Goodhue County Minnesota Illustrated; Chapter XIII;|last = Curtiss-Wedge|first = Franklin|publisher = H. C. Cooper Jr. & Co.|year = 1909}}</ref> A post office was established as Cannon River Falls in 1855, and the name was shortened to Cannon Falls in 1889.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Goodhue | title=Goodhue County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=14 June 2015}}</ref> Cannon Falls was reincorporated as a city in 1905.<ref name="Upham 206" />

An abundance of water power from both the Big and Little Cannon Rivers attracted manufacturers and capital investment.<ref name=":1" /> The first flouring mill was built by R. C. Knox & Co., in 1857. Other manufacturers, such as a wool mill, a grist mill, and a mill producing syrup from amber cane, used power generated from the Little Cannon River starting in 1861.<ref name=":0" />