Whither Pig's Eye? Here's how the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul got their names.

On the banks of the Mighty Mississippi River roughly 180 years ago, two burgeoning towns in Minnesota, then just a territory in the U.S., were searching for an identity. The Twin Cities each have a unique personality, pace, and history. But in the mid-1800s, both were still searching for what to call their communities.

"The history of Minneapolis is more complicated than we would expect, and just about everything we know about the history of the name St. Paul is wrong," said Bill Convery, Director of Research for the Minnesota Historical Society.

What other names were suggested besides Minneapolis?

"There was no consensus on what to call it," Convery said. One idea was All Saints, an effort to sound better than St. Paul or St. Anthony. Technically, a name was officially picked before Mi