Mecca Hotel
A 1950s view of the Mecca Hotel in Cook. The Lake Vermilion Archives would appreciate any additional information people might want to share as our files are incomplete…. [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]
