Tower Lumber Company
Located on Pike Bay, at Mill Point Plat in Tower, the Tower Lumber Company saw mill is depicted in this circa. 1910-1912 photograph. The peak of logging in the Lake Vermilion area occurred around 1900.
During the logging years, spanning 1884 through the 1920s, logs were cut across Lake Vermilion and points north including around Trout, Pine and Oriniack lakes and towed by steam ships across Lake Vermilion in large booms and held in Pike Bay prior to being sawed into… [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]
