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This town site, named after President Buchanan, was laid out in October 1856 from September 1857 until May 1859. The place though little less than wilderness was the seat of the U. S. Land office for the northeast Ern district of Minnesota. After r [...]
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As you face Lake Superior at this point, you will find that the eastern access to the skyline parkway, a 30-mile drive along the rim of the hills overlooking Duluth and Lake Superior, begins here to your right on the left bank of the Lester river. As [...]
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For the past 50 years motorists traveling Highway 61 along the north shore of Lake Superior have crossed the border between the United States and Canada at a bridge over the Pigeon River. What many don't know is that for nearly 50 years the border cr [...]
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A landmark property on the North Shore of Lake Superior, providing warm hospitality since 1927, Cascade Lodge is the premier family resort on Lake Superior’s North Shore featuring log cabins, a historic main lodge and economical motel units. Casca [...]
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Due to a navigational error, she stranded in fair weather and became a total loss, but her passengers and crew were taken off by the Duluth tug T.H. CAMP. Enrollment surrendered at Duluth the 30th. Content the property of Boatnerd.com. [...]
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Books have been written, stories told, and motion pictures made of the Historic Logging Camp days when rugged men and tough animals fought the bitter cold and heavy snow to harvest the mighty forests of Northern Minnesota. Today the camps and horses [...]
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Some miles southwest of Finland, and near where the North Alger Grade, now a snowmobile trail, runs, sits the remains of Beaver Crossing, also known as Old Illgen City. An old point of call on the Two Harbors-Beaver Bay sleigh road, which ran nea [...]
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In the 1890's, supposedly a silver mine operated on the Susie Island group, just off Hovland village, until the pumps broke and it was flood out. The site has not been located, but is supposedly hidden on this remote island. The Susie Islands (The [...]
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A one mile length of the original North Shore Scenic Highway survives between Illgen City and Little Marais along the east side of Highway 61. Sadly, it is now mostly closed to the public and is in use as a series of private driveways. Oblique photos [...]
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