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The Minnesota Discovery Center, formerly known as Ironworld Discovery Center and originally as the Iron Range Interpretive Center, opened in the 1977 outside Chisholm, Minnesota, United States. [1] [2] It showcases northeastern Minnesota's "history and future" and includes a museum, entertainment venue, research center and library, and a park. [3]
The Iron Range Historical Society made efforts in 1976 to save the last remaining smokestack at the Corsica Mine near Elcor, Minnesota. Architecturally significant, it was built by Cornish miners in 1901 and was the last of its kind on the Iron Range.
Nearby communities important to the Iron Range: Duluth (pop. 86,265) The fourth largest city in the state, is a destination for much of the ore shipped via the DM&IR railroad and loaded onto Lake freighters. A large part of the Iron Range is also included in the Duluth MN-WI MSA.
Fall Festivals in the Erie ara Fall Harvest Festival : Sept. 14-Oct. 31, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays and 10 a.m.-9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, Port Farms, 2055 Stone ...
The Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway (DM&N) was a railroad company in the U.S. state of Minnesota.It was one of the earliest iron ore hauling railroads of the area, said to have built the largest iron ore docks in the world, and later was one of the constituent railroads in the merger that formed the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway.
This week's girls swimming and diving state meet will be the 48th conducted by the MSHSL in the modern era, which began in 1975. But this year's meet is actually more of a centennial. When the ...
Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, Mesabi Range, 2010. The Mesabi Iron Range is a mining district and mountain range in northeastern Minnesota following an elongate trend containing large deposits of iron ore. It is the largest of four major iron ranges in the region collectively known as the Iron Range of Minnesota. First described in ...
Minnesota Iron Range Strike [26] 1916 (United States) New York City Transit Strike [26] 1916 (United States) New York Cloakmakers' Strike [26] 1916 (United States) San Francisco Open Shop Campaign began. [26] 1916 (United States) Bayonne refinery strikes of 1915–1916 against Standard Oil continued. [26] Thomas Mooney (1882-1942), American ...