On Locomotive Street at Mountain Avenue, on the left when traveling east on Locomotive Street.
Originally a road switcher for use at Proctor Yard and Duluth ore dock operations of the DM&N R.R. It was then transferred to the O.I.M. Co. for mining and stripping operations at various Iron Range mines. Last used in the Mt. Iron Open Pit Ore Mine . . . — — Map (db m155588) HM
On Main Street (County Road 708) just east of Mountain Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
The Merritt Brothers made the first discovery of iron ore on the Mesabi Range in 1890, declaring it a "mountain of iron." With this find, their prospectors' camp lost its temporary aspect and began to swell in size and importance. On October 17, . . . — — Map (db m155585) HM
On Main Street (County Road 708) just east of Mountain Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
This is magnetic TACONITE — part of Minnesota's iron formation and in many ways similar to other iron-bearing materials found in the United States and throughout the world. Forty years of work in mining firms' laboratories and at the University of . . . — — Map (db m155587) HM
Near Mead Wood Road, 0.7 miles north of Ash River Trail, on the right when traveling north.
This short trail leads you through the Voyageur Forest. The ups and downs of the landform create a diversity of forest types. On the dry rocky ridge tops and rocky shorelines, the forest is dominated by pines Lower on the hillside in soils . . . — — Map (db m154712) HM
The 225 was purchased by the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railway Co. in June of 1941 and hauled over 44 million tons of iron ore from the Mesabi and Vermillion ranges.
The length of the engine and tender is 127 feet 8 inches, and stands over . . . — — Map (db m78615) HM
Dedicated in memory of
Sherman L. Gonyea
Capt. Minn ANG
1937 - 1971
James L. Verville
Capt. Minn ANG
1940 - 1971
who died in the crash of their F-101 jet interceptor on 17 December 1971 and so gave their lives for that . . . — — Map (db m78612) WM
Near Interstate 35 at milepost 249, on the left when traveling north.
Lake Superior is situated over the Midcontinent Rift, which is a rupture in the North American continent that formed a great rift valley from the Lake Superior region southwest to Kansas about 1.1 billion years ago. For about 20 million years as the . . . — — Map (db m5113) HM
Near Interstate 35 at milepost 249, on the left when traveling north.
Minnesota’s Seaport. More than three billion tons of iron ore, along with millions of tons of grain, lumber, fish, and coal, have passed through the Duluth-Superior harbor since the beginning of Minnesota’s Iron Age. The first ore from the rich . . . — — Map (db m3094) HM
Near Interstate 35 at milepost 249, on the left when traveling north.
1976
Stainless Steel
David von Schlegell (1920 – 1992)
The stainless steel sculpture functions as a metaphor, tying the horizontal lines of the land and Lake Superior, which are both very visible from this location, together . . . — — Map (db m4756) HM
Near McKinley Park Road, 0.5 miles north of Main Street.
Minnesota’s iron mining industry was born here in 1884, and the opening of this mine was one of the great commercial events of the nineteenth century. The first ore was shipped from the Breitung pit of the Soudan Mine on July 31, 1884, beginning . . . — — Map (db m143711) HM
On Main Street (State Highway 1) west of Spruce Street, on the right when traveling east.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior Old Fire Hall 1895 — — Map (db m143706) HM
On County Road 526, off of Minnesota 169 (State Highway 169), on the right when traveling west on County Road 526, off of Minnesota 169.
On October 28, 1865, geologist Henry H. Eames returned to St. Paul after initiating a survey of the mineral wealth present in the Lake Vermilion area only to find an abundance of rumors concerning a valuable gold strike on the shores of that lake. A . . . — — Map (db m104381) HM
On Poirier Road, on the left when traveling south.
Named for Charlemagne Tower, one of the developers of the Vermilion Range and Duluth and Iron Range Railroad. It was incorporated as a village in 1884 and as a city in 1889. A saw mill was established here in 1882.
An Indian settlement was . . . — — Map (db m207695) HM
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 a . . . — — Map (db m127863) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m107204) HM
Gunnar Peterson (1880–1951) was Virginia's first horticulturalist, hired in 1926. He became renowned for his elaborate flower beds at this location. Born in Sweden, he learned landscape architecture under his father and grandfather and . . . — — Map (db m106383) HM
Hokka immigrated to this country in 1913. Using skills learned in Finland, he constructed this building with locked dovetail corners.
Donated by John Trenti and Robert Berger, 1980 — — Map (db m106385) HM
The Laurentian Divide separates the watershed of streams that flow north to the Arctic Ocean from the watershed of streams that flow south through the Great lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Where you are standing the divide is formed by a prominent . . . — — Map (db m183138) HM
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