Snow buries northwoods around Lake Vermilion

Fashionable winter clothes were readily available on Lake Vermilion in the 1890s. Tower, Minnesota merchants were always ready to provide the latest New York City styles for their northwoods consumers. The Wallace family, sporting their new winter garments, stopped to pose for a cabinet photograph at Charles Lang’s studio in Tower. —photo c. 1890

NOVEMBER 19, 2016 — The first snowfall of the 2016–17 winter season began in the early hours of Friday, November 18. Although this date is a little behind the average for the first snowfall, winter has made amends for its tardiness with its generosity. Snowfall totals vary widely across the region with recorders from Orr, on Pelican Lake, northwest of Lake Vermilion, reporting an impressive 24.8 inches and recorders in Tower reporting 19 inches. At 11:00 o’clock this morning, after plenty of time to settle, a dense, heavy 12 inches of “the beautiful” were measured on Driscoll Hill in Soudan. Please add to our collection of snowfall reports by emailing us at Info*AT*lakevermilion.net.