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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AUH_burlington-northern-ore-docks_Superior-WI.html
These docks, the largest in the world, consist of three structures of concrete and steel. The longest dock is 2244 feet long, 80 feet high, and contains 374 individual pockets which can hold 100,000 long tons of ore, or 7 average trains of 205 car…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ6K_summer-white-house-1928_Superior-WI.html
On May 31, 1928, President Calvin Coolidge accepted former Senator Irvine Lenroot's invitation to spend the summer in the Superior area. Henry Clay Pierce had offered Cedar Island Lodge, part of a 4,000 acre Brule River estate, to serve as living …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT4I_northwest-portal-of-wisconsin_Superior-WI.html
Over millions of years, the forces of nature have given Northwest Wisconsin some of the finest scenery in the world. The most striking feature is Lake Superior, largest freshwater lake in the world and the "Gitche Gumee" of Henry Wadsworth Longfel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT4G_the-university-of-wisconsin-superior_Superior-WI.html
Authorized by the legislature in 1893, the University of Wisconsin-Superior opened its doors in 1896 as the state's seventh Normal School to train teachers, drawing most of its students from ten northern Wisconsin counties. The original building, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMOD_old-stockade-site_Superior-WI.html
The Sioux uprising in Minnesota during the Summer of 1862, culminating in the New Ulm Massacre, caused great alarm in Superior. A Committee of Safety was chosen, a Home Guard organized, and a stockade built on the bay shore here. An inventory of a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML5A_s-s-meteor_Superior-WI.html
The Great Lakes whaleback fleet was the revolutionary result of Capt. Alexander McDougall's attempts to improve conventional ship design. Between 1888 and 1898, 43 whalebacks were launched and became forerunners of the bulk fleet on the Great Lake…
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