George Floyd Square
George Floyd Square, officially George Perry Floyd Square in Minneapolis, is a commemorative name applied to Chicago Avenue between the East 37th and 39th Streets in the Powderhorn neighborhood.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Square
- Description: street in Minneapolis
- Also known as: “George Perry Floyd Square”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include George Floyd Square occupied protest and Hosmer Library.
George Floyd Square occupied protest
Garden
As a reaction to the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, racial justice activists and some residents of the Powderhorn community in Minneapolis staged an occupation protest at the intersection of East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue with a blockade of the streetway lasting over a year.
Hosmer Library
Library
Photo: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hosmer Library, originally known as the Thirty-Sixth Street Branch Library, is a branch library of the Hennepin County Library system serving the Central neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Hosmer Library is situated 2,400 feet northwest of George Floyd Square.
Powderhorn Park
Park
Photo: City of Minneapolis Archives, CC BY 2.0.
Powderhorn Park is an urban park in Minneapolis. It sits in the northwest of the Powderhorn Park neighborhood and near the center of the larger Powderhorn community, both of which take their names from the park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Powderhorn and King Field.
Powderhorn
Suburb
Powderhorn is a defined community in Minneapolis that consists of eight neighborhoods. The community name is derived from Powderhorn Lake that is the centerpiece of the present-day Powderhorn Park.
King Field
Neighborhood
King Field is a neighborhood in the Southwest community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its boundaries are 36th Street to the north, Interstate 35W to the east, 46th Street to the south, and Lyndale Avenue to the west.
George Floyd Square
- Categories: thoroughfare and locality
- Location: Minneapolis, Hennepin, Twin Cities, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.93417° or 44° 56′ 3″ northLongitude
-93.26252° or 93° 15′ 45″ westNamed after
George FloydOpen location code
86P8WPMP+MXOpenStreetMap ID
way 819658668OpenStreetMap feature
place=squareWikidata ID
Q112145973
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In Other Languages
“George Floyd Square” goes by many names.
- Russian: “Chicago Avenue”
- Russian: “George Floyd Square”
- Russian: “Площадь Джорджа Флойда”
- Russian: “Чикаго-авеню”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Nokomis Gallery At CAFAC and World Outreach for Christ Ministries.
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