Tower Junction
This extremely rare undated photograph depicts the Tower Junction during the early 20th century.
History
The Tower Junction was a busy place servicing daily freight and passenger train service coming to the Soudan Mine and the City of Tower, and also heading to Ely. The area from south Soudan, and west to Kugler Township was filled with industrial activity including the railroad, brick factory kilns and ponds, Roy Mine, North American Mine, the Town of Walsh, and the North American Hotel. An estimated 800 people worked in this industrial corridor.
The railroad refilled with… [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]
