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Feb 4, 2022 · Renowned for presiding over six-hour, often-contentious City Council meetings, the mayor was an old-school DFL power broker whose reach extended to Washington, D.C., and beyond. "What are we...
The worst natural disaster in Minnesota history—over 450 dead, fifteen hundred square miles consumed, towns and villages burned flat—unfolded at a frightening pace, lasting less than fifteen hours from beginning to end. The fire began around midday on Saturday, October 12, 1918.
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Plenty of legendary characters have lived in and around Ely. One was Benny Ambrose, the feisty old woodsman who refused to let the U.S. Forest Service run him off his homestead when the area became the BWCA. After much (ahem) unpleasantness when the government came calling, he was one of two people allowed to remain in his homestead on BWCA lands. ...
Other stories swirl through the forests here. Not of real-world people, but of otherworldly happenings, things you encounter but can't quite explain when you're out in the wilderness. It's the hair on the back of your neck raising when there isn't another soul for miles, or the calm lake suddenly upending your canoe with a crashing wave. It's the s...
Some modern-day lore lovers speculate that the Windigo isn't an evil spirit at all, but another legend: Bigfoot. Campers, hikers and canoeists alike have reported sightings of the creature, or say they've heard strange noises in the middle of the night. There have been so many sightings that Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot series even came to the N...
Description: A reminiscent account of the experiences of a sixteen-year-old Hinckley, Minnesota, girl in the 1894 Hinckley fire. Newman describes the first alarm to the city, attempts to flee by train, and the arrival of survivors in Duluth. First Annual Report of the Chief Fire Warden of Minnesota for the Year 1895.
Following the intervention of the local member of parliament, Charles Selwyn, the Isle of Ely was constituted a separate administrative county in 1889. The county was small in terms of both area and population, and its abolition was proposed by the Local Government Boundary Commission in 1947. [10]
May 9, 2017 · Ruins of Cloquet, Minnesota, after the 1918 fire. The fire started as a forest fire, but ended by destroying thirty-six towns and villages in northern Minnesota. Over 400 people died in the fire. Photo: Carlton County Historical Society, Minnesota Guard, the Home Guard, the Red Cross, and all of the state's emergency resources were put into ...
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Mar 14, 2011 · Look back at a century of forest management in Minnesota with Connected to Our Roots: 100 Years of Growing Forests in Minnesota. Inside this 104-page book, you’ll find images, narratives, maps, documents, and firsthand accounts from those who have worked to protect and care for Minnesota’s forests.
