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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]
Iron Range Off-Highway Vehicle State Recreation Area is a Minnesota state park located east of Lake Ore-be-gone in Gilbert, Minnesota. The recreation area consists of 36 miles (58 km) of trails on a 1,864-acre (754 ha) unit, all of which was local iron ore mining land until 1981. A 3,500-acre (1,400 ha) expansion of the recreation area is also ...
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.
When the swimmers gather Friday and Saturday at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center, the 100th anniversary of the first swimming state meet for girls will be four months away. From 1924 to 1942 ...
Chisholm (pop. 4,976) is the Mesabi Range's geographic center. Coleraine (pop. 1,970) has been called the "start place of the Iron Range." Crosby (pop. 2,386) is an old mining boomtown on the Iron Range's southwestern edge. Deerwood (pop. 529) Mining engineer Cuyler Adams discovered the Cuyuna Range near Deerwood in 1895.
Iron Range Township was a township in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 649 at the 2010 census. [3] The township was annexed by the city of Taconite effective January 1, 2013. [4] Iron Range Township was named for the local iron mining industry. [5]
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 ...
Jul. 8—An Iron Range contractor allegedly pocketed tens of thousands of dollars for work he never completed. Tony Joe Suoja, 37, of Hibbing, is charged in State District Court with five felonies ...