On This Date in Minnesota History: November 28

November 28, 1892 – First settled in the spring of 1892, “Mountain Iron, Minn., was incorporated as a village [on this date].”  Its name came from the Mountain Iron mine, the earliest mine in the Mesabi Range to ship ore (August 1892).

http://www.thehistorypeople.com/data/docs/timeline-part1.pdf

Upham, Warren; Minnesota Geographic Names, Their Origin and Historic Significance; Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minn., 1969); pp. 486.

Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Nov. 28, 2015,
as long as acknowledgement included.  

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