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It is located on Gunflint Lake, on the border of Ontario, Canada, and is open year-round. Built in 1925 by Dora Blankenburg and her son Russell Blankenburg, the lodge was sold in 1927 to May and Justine Spunner, and was owned by the Kerfoot family until it was sold by Bruce Kerfoot in 2016.The family name changed in 1934 when Justine married ...
Justine Kerfoot (1906 – May 30, 2001) was an American writer and outdoors-woman who moved to the Boundary Waters in Minnesota in 1927 and helped establish the Gunflint Lodge and the overall Gunflint Trail area. She was the author of two published books and co-authored a third.
Location of Adams County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Adams County, Pennsylvania.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Oct. 28—EAU CLAIRE — An Eau Claire man was sentenced to 166 days in jail for his role in an altercation at an Eau Claire tavern that injured a third man. A gun was displayed during the ...
The Red Crown Tavern and Red Crown Tourist Court in Platte County, Missouri was the site of the July 20, 1933, gun battle between lawmen and outlaws Bonnie and Clyde and three members of their The outlaws made their escape, and were tracked down and cornered four days later near Dexter, Iowa and engaged by another posse.
When gun flint knapping was a large-scale industry in Brandon, Suffolk, silicosis was widely known as knappers' rot. It has been claimed silicosis was responsible for the early death of three-quarters of Brandon gun flint makers. In one workshop, seven of the eight workers died of the condition before the age of fifty. [3]
Forced to stay in a small tavern due to a flooded stream, Paladin calls out the local bully "Big" Fontana (Chris Alcaide) for cheating at drinking games by using water. Fontana challenges Paladin to a gunfight but before it can take place local Boise Peabody ( Strother Martin ) steps in and draws against Fontana, shooting him dead.
A wildfire flared Wednesday afternoon outside a prescribed burn area in the Superior National Forest about 25 to 30 miles west of Tofte, Minn. Forest Service managers said the fire was spotted ...