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Two Harbors is a city in and the county seat of Lake County, Minnesota, United States, [5] along the shore of Lake Superior. The population was 3,633 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] Minnesota State Highway 61 serves as a main route in Two Harbors.
This settlement was incorporated as a village (Two Harbors) on March 9, 1888, and that same year a vote was taken to transfer the county seat from Beaver Bay to Two Harbors (1888). [5] Commercial fishing on Lake Superior became important during the late 1880s, spurred by the arrival of Swedish and Norwegian immigrants to the North Shore.
The Little Knife River (East) is a 5.7-mile-long (9.2 km) [1] river in Lake County, Minnesota, United States. It is a tributary of the Knife River, located northwest of the city of Two Harbors. A second Little Knife River flows into the Knife River from the west, through St. Louis County.
The main branch of the Knife River flows 23.9 miles (38.5 km) from source to mouth, [2] flowing parallel to the shoreline from the direction of Two Harbors. [1] It has four or five major tributaries. [1] Its watershed is 84.3 square miles (218 km 2), and contains 181.1 miles (291.5 km) of streams. [7]
The Duluth MN–WI Metropolitan Area, [2] commonly called the Twin Ports, is a small metropolitan area centered around the cities of Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin. The Twin Ports are located at the western part of Lake Superior (the westernmost part of North America 's Great Lakes ) and together are considered one of the larger ...
Stewart is an unincorporated community in Lake County, Minnesota, United States. It is a surrounding community of Two Harbors. The community is located seven miles north of the city of Two Harbors at the intersection of Lake County Roads 124 and 132. Lake County Roads 12 and 111 are also in the immediate area.
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The North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum is a museum in Tofte, Minnesota, dedicated to the history of the Scandinavian immigrants and communities of the North Shore region of Lake Superior, and especially their importance to the national commercial fishing industry of the 1880s to 1940s. It is Minnesota's first museum dedicated to commercial ...