Tower Old Settlers’ Cemetery

The Tower Old Settlers' Cemetery, used in the early 1880s before the Lakeview Cemetery was built.

Grounds of what is the Tower Old Settlers' Cemetery, now overgrown with brush and littered with dead fallen trees. The ground is dotted with scattered indentations and holes.


History

Before the Tower Cemetery Association was created and the Lakeview Cemetery was cleared and built, Tower had a cemetery on the south side of the East Two River, in a swampy area slightly uphill of the river. This was one of the few places around the area that wasn’t immediately thought to have gold or iron, and wasn’t suitable for farming, so was instead used to bury the dead.

Most of the people in the old Tower Old Settlers’ Cemetery were… [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]


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