On this day across the bay in 1963, Fairlawn mansion was rededicated as the Douglas County Historical Society Museum. Fairlawn was built by lumber and mining executive Martin Pattison, three-time mayor of Superior, at 906 East Second Street in 1890. Superior purchased the estate $12,500. The following spring Douglas County Historical Society Curator James Lundsted…

On this day in Duluth in 1920, Assistant Chief Charles W. Wilson, 51, was killed and firefighter Otto Kalkbrenner was injured in a tragic accident on the way to a fire. According to Duluth Fired Department historian Jarry Keppers, Wilson, 51, was “driving about 30 or 40 miles per hour to a fire at the…

On this day in Duluth in 1889, the newly formed Board of Park Commissioners approved a resolution to start work on Terrace Parkway, later called Rogers Boulevard, Carriage Drive, and, beginning in 1929, Skyline Parkway. The roadway was the lynch-pin in William K. Rogers’s grand plan for Duluth’s Park system. In a letter to his…