On this day in 1864, future Duluth resident and the last surviving member of the Union Army, Albert Woolson, enlisted as a musician for one year’s service in the 1st Regiment Minnesota Heavy Artillery at Janeseville, Minnesota, near Mankato. He was assigned to Company C of the First Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment, detailed to the…

On this day in Duluth in 1931, the Duluth Superior Transit Company put new vehicles into service: “trackless trolley busses” powered by overhanging wires once used for traditional streetcars. The new busses rode on truck tires, not rails, and could maneuver within 14 feet of the overhead wires. The initial route of the busses, which…