A chapel named a citySourced
A landing called Pig's Eye.
Then a chapel changed the name.
Near today's Saint Paul, Minnesota, a river landing was known as Pig's Eye. After a log chapel dedicated to Saint Paul was built nearby in 1841, people began calling it Saint Paul's Landing. The name gradually spread to the settlement.
A little building
gave a city its name.
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