Historic Industry
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Powering Industry
Great Northern Power’s Thompson Dam
Great Northern Power Distribution Station
Harvest & Trade
The Fur Trade at Fond du Lac (1816–1839)
Duluth’s Brownstone Industry (1870–1910)
Commercial Fishing on Lake Superior (1834–1960s)
North Shore Fishing Villages
Grain Trade (1870–1972)
Duluth’s Grain Elevators
“Duluth’s Grain Memories”
Timber/Lumber (1880s–1970s)
Logging in Northern Minnesota
Logging Camp Life
The Lumber Industry in Duluth
Duluth’s Lesure Lumber Company
Twin Ports Hardboard Manufacturers
Iron Mining (1884–Today)
Iron Mining in Northeastern Minnesota
The Hard Life of An Early Iron Miner
Ghost Towns of the Iron Range
Duluth’s Jobbing Houses, aka Wholesalers (1872–1958)
Stone-Ordean-Wells Mill
Manufacturing
Beer Brewing (1859–1972)
Pioneer Breweries of the Twin Ports (1859–1886)
Fitger’s Brewing Company (1885–1972)
West Superior Brewing Company (Superior, WI; 1889–1901)
Klinkert Brewing Company (Superior, WI; 1890–1909)
Duluth Brewing & Malting (1896–1966)
Northern Brewing Company (Superior, WI; 1898–1968)
People’s Brewing Company (1907–1957)
Historic Minnesota Iron Range Breweries (1891–1920)
Historic Wisconsin South Shore Breweries (1881–1937)
Flour Milling in Duluth (1888–1957)
Imperial Flour Mill
Imperial Mill & Duluth’s Railroads
Metal Fabricators (1875–1985)
Ship Building (1869–1950s)
McDougall’s Whaleback Steamers
Miscellaneous Manufacturers
DeWitt-Seitz Warehouse, Showroom & Factory
Patrick Woolen Mills
Universal Portland Cement/Atlas Cement
Railroads & Railways
Duluth’s Major Railroads
Northern Pacific Railway in the Twin Ports
The Fond du Lac Line & Lost Forbay
Team Tracks of the Twin Ports
Superior’s Central Avenue Interlocking
J. J. Hill v. Northern Pacific
The Busy Life of a Railroad Tower Man
Rules Ruled the Railroad
Northern Pacific Railway’s locomotive Minnetonka
Great Northern Railway’s locomotive William Crooks
Rail Car Carrier Incan Superior
Railroad Depots
Duluth Union Depot (1892)
DM&IR Railway Endion Station
Duluth’s MStP&SSM (Soo Line) Passenger Station
Superior’s MStP&SSM (Soo Line) Passenger Station
CMO (Omaha Road) Passenger Station
Street Railways (1883–1939)
Duluth Street Railway Company
Glen Avon Station
Morgan Park Streetcar Station
Seventh Avenue West Incline
Duluth Beltline Railway (aka West Duluth Incline)
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