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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D33_pioneer-mine_Ely-MN.html
Pioneer Mine. . The Pioneer Vermilion Iron Mining Company opened the Pioneer Mine in 1888 and began shipping ore the following year. When Oliver Iron Mining Company leased the Pioneer in 1898, it was producing over 500,000 tons annually. Eventuall…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D30_pioneer-mine-a-shaft_Ely-MN.html
Pioneer Mine A Shaft. . The Pioneer Mine began operation in 1888. Shafts No. 1 and No. 2 were abandoned and replaced by vertical A Shaft, which was sunk in 1909 and in 1943 an incline from 8th level to surface was completed. Men, timber for suppor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B91_lake-superior_Duluth-MN.html
Lake Superior The largest body of fresh water in the world, 380 miles long and 160 miles across. With a maximum depth of 1300 feet, Lake Superior occupies a basin cut 600 million years ago by a receding glacier. The shoreline of the original "G…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM210F_hanka-homestead_Embarrass-MN.html
Times were tough in the life of an immigrant farmer in northeastern Minnesota. Subsistence farming was a way of life that had gone on for centuries in Finland. Immigrants knew what was needed to survive in the harsh climate of the area. All family…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20XG_embarrass-co-op_Embarrass-MN.html
The Embarrass Cooperative Association was formed in 1909 by a small group of residents in response to economic insecurity and low prices for their produce. It sold food, supplies, clothing, hardware, and even forest and farm products on behalf of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20XF_alma-norha-playhouse_Embarrass-MN.html
This log playhouse was constructed about 1902 by Juha Tupanen Norha for nine year old Alma. Alma, her mother, Maria, and her grandmother, Elizabeth, arrived in Embarrass from Finland in 1901 to join her father, Samuel, at his homestead cabin. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20V5_apostolic-lutheran-church_Embarrass-MN.html
Woodsmen and railroaders comprised the sparse population of the Embarrass area until the late 1800s, when a permanent community was established by Finnish immigrants. In 1905, Embarrass Township was incorporated, and the Finnish settlers began to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20TH_tower-train-museum_Tower-MN.html
When iron ore was discovered on the Vermilion Range, Charlemagne Tower, Sr., George Stone, Charlemagne Tower, Jr., and George Stuntz formed the Minnesota Iron Company and acquired the Duluth and Iron Range Railway (D&IR). In 1883, they constructed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20TG_welcome-to-dm-ir-engine-1218_Tower-MN.html
This steam locomotive was one of 12, received from the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1910, used by the Duluth, and Iron Range Railway (as number 218) and later by the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (as number 1218) to haul righ iron ore from…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20J5_longyear-drill-site_Hoyt-Lakes-MN.html
On May 27, 1890 E.J. Longyear established a tent camp for his crew and himself near the tripod of the drill. He brought his bride to the drill site in September 1890. Constructed on the hill was a two room building made of rough pine boards from a…
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