Goodwill Summer Resort
Photograph dated (approx.) 1915, from the Enice Burgess, Tower Weekly News publisher, collection.
“Lake Vermilion, with its many charming little islets — 365 in all, it has been asserted, most of them well timbered, makes an ideal summer ‘retreat’ for the city man who loves nature. It has been only within the last few years that the people of Tower have awakened to the possibilities for the city in developing the lake. A local review reads: ‘the beauty of Lake Vermilion was not fully appreciated until 1910, when I. Goodwill erected a hotel… [Read More]
Thomas J. Walsh
History
Thomas J. Walsh was a prominent member of Tower and Soudan’s history at the turn of the 20th Century, though his name seems all but forgotten. He was involved in… [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]
