Historical Markers and War Memorials in Proctor, Minnesota
Duluth is the county seat for Saint Louis County
Proctor is in Saint Louis County
Saint Louis County(119) ► ADJACENT TO SAINT LOUIS COUNTY Aitkin County(10) ► Carlton County(10) ► Itasca County(6) ► Koochiching County(2) ► Lake County(61) ► Douglas County, Wisconsin(22) ►
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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
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
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
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
