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Cloquet (/ k l oʊ ˈ k eɪ / ⓘ kloh-KAY) [6] is a city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States, at the junction of Interstate 35 and Minnesota State Highway 33. Part of the city lies within the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and serves as one of the reservation's three administrative centers.
The Carlton County History and Heritage Center is a museum located in Cloquet, Minnesota. [3] The building, located in former historic Shaw Memorial Library, is owned and operated by the Carlton County Historical Society. The museum is dedicated to preserving and displaying the history of Carlton County.
Cloquet: 1919 office building—Cloquet's largest from the construction boom after the 1918 fire—which housed nearly all of the lumber town's principal businesses. [7] 6: Grand Portage of the St. Louis River: Grand Portage of the St. Louis River: May 24, 1973 : West of Duluth in Jay Cooke State Park off Minnesota Highway 210
Cloquet was hardest hit by the fires; it was the worst natural disaster in Minnesota history in terms of the number of casualties in a single day. It is also the third-deadliest wildfire in recorded history, behind the Peshtigo fire of 1871 and a 1936 wildfire that occurred in Kursha-2.
It was named for Reuben B. Carlton, a member of the Minnesota Senate (1857–58). [9] In October 1918, an immense forest fire occurred, known as the Cloquet fire. The Carlton County Historical Society hosts a permanent exhibit about the fire of 1918, along with ones about the Ojibwe of Carlton County and the Logging Era. [10]
The Cloquet-Northern Office Building is the historic headquarters for several offices in Cloquet, Minnesota owned by the Weyerhaeuser family. The building was constructed in the early spring and summer of 1919, after the Cloquet fire on October 12, 1918 that caused extensive destruction in Carlton and St. Louis counties.
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Cloquet, Minnesota, an inhabited place; Cloquet River, Minnesota, United States; 1918 Cloquet Fire, a massive fire in northern Minnesota in October, 1918; Cloquet Terminal Railroad, a small terminal railroad; Cloquet Valley State Forest, Minnesota; Cloquet's canal, see Hyaloid artery; Cloquet's node, a lymph node