Monday, April 8, 2013

On This Date in Minnesota History: April 8


April 8, 1909 – “Biwabik Township (T. 58N, R. 16W) and its city in sections 1-4, 9-11, on the Mesabi Iron Range, have an Ojibwe name, meaning "iron." The city was incorporated as a village on November 10, 1892, and reincorporated and separated from the township on [on this date]; its post office began in 1893.”

“Biwabik was the first of the now existing Mesabi Range towns to be incorporated - as a village, the first to be served by two railroads (the Duluth, Missabe and Northern and the Duluth and Iron Range vied in extending their lines to the rich mines); it had the first large mine on the Mesabi (the Biwabik), which was the first to be leased to an outside furnace (see The Iron Ore Ranges), and was the first to use a steam shovel in mining operations.”

http://www.lakesnwoods.com/Biwabik.htm


Main Street looking west, Biwabik Minnesota, 1900's
http://www.lakesnwoods.com/Biwabik.htm


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