May 8 will be recorded as the day Lake Vermilion shed its ice cover this year


WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2018 — When darkness fell last night, May 8, the ice covering some of Lake Vermilion remained in place following a day of light rain. Wednesday morning, sometime before the noon hour, airplane flights across the area revealed that no ice remained anywhere on the lake and May 8 will be the official ice-out date for Lake Vermilion in 2018.

Tradition has long been to record the date the ice goes out as a day which starts at… [Read More]

The LaRue Mine (Armstrong Bay Mine)

History

The LaRue Mine was a small mining operation northeast of Lake Vermilion, located along the same ridge as the larger Soudan Mine and the Consolidated Vermilion & Extension mine. It… [Read More]


Monsignor Joseph Francis Buh

History

Monsignor Joseph Francis Buh was a Catholic priest who traveled Minnesota around the time of the early gold rush, ministering to many groups of people and setting up churches across… [Read More]


Early Day History

This was a series of articles printed in the Tower Weekly News between March 14, 1914 and April 24, 1914.


Early Day History

It has been thirty years—come St. Patrick’s Day,… [Read More]


The People of Lake Vermilion

Since the Vermilion Gold Rush, a wide diaspora of people have come to the Lake Vermilion area in search of fortune, fame, recreation, or a little slice of the woods… [Read More]


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