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Grand Marais: Rare intact and operational example of an early-20th-century blacksmith shop—built in 1911—and a representative of the utilitarian, false-front commercial buildings that once characterized Minnesota's small-town streetscapes. [5] Now maintained by the Cook County Historical Society. [6] 3: Cascade River Wayside: Cascade River ...
Cook County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,600, [1] making it Minnesota's seventh-least populous county. Its county seat is Grand Marais. [2] The Grand Portage Indian Reservation is in the county.
Grand Marais (/ m ə ˈ r eɪ / mə-RAY) [6] is a city and the county seat of Cook County, Minnesota, United States, of which it is the only municipality. It is on Lake Superior's North Shore. Grand Marais had a population of 1,337 at the 2020 census. [2] Before it was settled by French Canadians and before Minnesota's statehood, it was ...
First sign for the Gunflint Trail in Grand Marais. County State-Aid Highway 12 (CSAH 12), also known as the Gunflint Trail, or County Road 12 (CR 12), is a 57-mile (92 km) paved roadway and National Scenic Byway in Cook County, Minnesota, that begins in Grand Marais and ends at Saganaga Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), near the U.S. border with Ontario.
North Shore towns aren't often the target of foreign influence operations, but last weekend Grand Marais may have been in the crosshairs. A Pride Month celebration in the town of 1,400 people last ...
By the time it was built in 1933, Chik Wauk was one of well over a dozen such resorts in the area. It was built by Edwin Nunstedt, a Swedish immigrant who owned building companies in Grand Marais and Two Harbors, Minnesota. The lodge served as a store, resort office, restaurant, and lounge area for resort guests.
The Naniboujou Club Lodge is a resort and restaurant built as part of a private club on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Cook County, Minnesota, United States, about 15 miles (24 km) east of Grand Marais. It is named after Naniboujou, a character from the Cree, and the lodge's décor has both Native American and Art Deco influences.
The Lightkeeper's House, also known as the Cook County History Museum, is a historic building in Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States.. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and was nominated for being "a significant survivor of the settlement along Minnesota's north shore during the last decades of the nineteenth century.