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30 unusual facts about Duluth


1956 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship

The 1956 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship was contested from July 26 to July 30 at Northland Country Club in Duluth, Minnesota.

ASci Corporation

In 1991 Haque and Donald I. Mount founded the Environmental Testing Laboratory in Duluth, Minnesota.

ASci is an American Corporation headquartered in McLean, Virginia with offices in Duluth, Minnesota, Bay City, Michigan and Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Barbara Jane Mackle

They drove her to a remote pine stand off of South Berkeley Lake Road in Gwinnett County near Duluth and buried Mackle in a shallow trench inside of a fiberglass-reinforced box.

Bardon Peak

It is located inside the southwestern city limits of Duluth, near the Gary – New Duluth neighborhood and adjacent Midway Township; and the peak is located above the Morgan Park neighborhood.

Charles Winchester Breedlove

Breedlove testified he left Los Angeles early in 1929, went to Duluth, Minnesota, but returned seven months later.

Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut

His name is sometimes anglicized as "DuLuth", and he is the namesake of Duluth, Minnesota as well as Duluth, Georgia.

Duluth University

Duluth University may mean a university in Duluth, Minnesota

Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway

Dieselization continued with the purchase of several EMD SD9 road switchers the following year, while the last revenue steam run occurred in 1960.

In 1954, a set of Baldwin DR-4-4-1500 "Sharknose" diesels arrived from the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern (a fellow U.S. Steel railroad), though they were returned to Baldwin Locomotive Works when the EJ&E contract expired in 1955.

Elisabeth Congdon

Elisabeth Mannering Congdon (April 22, 1894 - June 27, 1977) was a millionaire resident of Duluth, Minnesota, USA who became famous after she and her nurse were found murdered on June 27, 1977.

FM H-10-44

Another example is former Hallet Dock Company HD-11, which is now at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minnesota.

Great Lakes Aquarium

The Great Lakes Aquarium opened in 2000 and is located on the Duluth waterfront.

Griggs Field at James S. Malosky Stadium

Griggs Field at James S. Malosky Stadium located on the campus of the University of Minnesota Duluth in Duluth, Minnesota is the home stadium, since 1966, of the UMD Bulldogs football team and of the UMD women's soccer since 1994.

Heisler locomotive

The Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Georgia, has a two truck Heisler (#9) lovingly restored on static display inside the main exhibit hall.

International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor

This supercorridor uses existing highways such as the Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas, to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minnesota.

Lester Park Golf Course

Lester Park Golf Course is one of two public golf courses located in the port city of Duluth, Minnesota.

Minnesota State Highway 33

Highway 33 is a bypass of Duluth for travelers headed to the Iron Range of northern Minnesota and International Falls.

Minnesota State Highway 39

Minnesota State Highway 39 is a short highway in northeast Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highway 23 (Commonwealth Avenue) in Duluth and continues east to its eastern terminus at the Wisconsin state line (at the Oliver Bridge), where it becomes Wisconsin Highway 105 upon entering the village of Oliver, Wisconsin.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Keweenaw County, Michigan

Beginning in 1902, she ran three voyages per week among Duluth, Minnesota, Isle Royale, and Thunder Bay, Ontario, as well as numerous small communities in between.

North Dakota Highway 210

Its eastern terminus is at the North Dakota – Minnesota border where the highway becomes MN 210 and continues east toward Duluth.

Northeastern Maritime Historical Foundation

The Foundation has assembled steam-powered vessels in Duluth, Minnesota.

Olof Hanson

In 1891 he returned to Minnesota and worked at his profession in Duluth and Minneapolis.

Port Columbus International Airport

A Piper Aztec from Duluth, Minnesota, veered off the left side of the runway when the nose gear collapsed on landing.

Siren, Wisconsin

Presumably the postal department thought this was a misspelling, for on the granted application they put down the spelling as "Siren." In 1912, the town center was moved nearer the Soo Line Railroad tracks which had been extended through the area to Duluth, Minnesota.

USLHT Amaranth

Now redesignated USCGC Amaranth (WAGL-201), the ship was stationed at Duluth, Minnesota, throughout World War II, and maintained navigational aids on Lake Superior.

Wade Stadium

Wade Stadium is a baseball park located near the intersection of Grand Avenue and 34th Avenue West in the West Duluth neighborhood of Duluth, Minnesota.

Wisconsin Highway 105

State Trunk Highway 105 (often called Highway 105, STH 105 or WIS 105) is a Wisconsin state highway running east–west in northwest Wisconsin from the Minnesota border at Duluth, Minn. to Tower Avenue in Superior, Wisc.

The bridge crosses the St. Louis River to the Gary-New Duluth neighborhood in the city of Duluth.

Highway 105 serves as an east–west arterial route between the city of Superior, Oliver, and the Gary-New Duluth neighborhood of Duluth.


2-8-8-4

Three of the eighteen built still survive and are on display: Number 227 at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minnesota, Number 225 in Proctor, Minnesota, and Number 229 in Two Harbors, Minnesota.

2009–10 Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey season

March 22: The Mayor of Duluth Don Ness presented head coach Shannon Miller with a proclamation declaring Friday, March 26, 2010 as "Shannon Miller Day'".

Arnold, Minnesota

The census-designated place of Arnold is located entirely within Rice Lake Township, adjacent to the north side of the city of Duluth.

Battle of Sugar Point

However, when he and Sha-Boon-Day-Shkong traveled to the nearby Indian village of Onigum on September 15, they were seized by U.S. Deputy Marshal Robert Morrison and U.S. Indian Agent Arthur M. Tinker as witnesses to a bootlegging operation and were going to be transported to Duluth (Bugonaygeshig had previously testified at another bootlegging trial in the port city on Lake Superior five months earlier).

Billy Earle

Bill Barnes, a former teammate with Earle when they played for a Duluth, Minnesota club in 1887, noted an incident that happened on May 11 on the Mississippi River near LaCrosse, Wisconsin.

Central Hillside

Duluth's Mesaba Avenue (Highway 194) travels through the Central Hillside neighborhood.

DBU

Duluth Business University a private university school located in Duluth, Minnesota

Downtown Duluth

The Downtown of Duluth, Minnesota, United States; is situated between Mesaba Avenue (Highway 194) and 4th Avenue East; and located on Michigan, Superior, First, Second, and Third Streets.

Duluth Air Defense Sector

The SAGE building was remodeled and, in 1985, given to the University of Minnesota Duluth to house the Natural Resources Research Institute signed into legislation to address the struggling economy during the early 1980s recession.

Duluth Heights

Central Entrance, Arlington Avenue, and Arrowhead Road are three of the main routes in Duluth Heights.

Duluth pack

A Duluth pack is traditional portage pack used in canoe travel, particularly in the Boundary Waters region of northern Minnesota and the Quetico Provincial Park of Ontario.

A Duluth pack is traditional portage pack used in canoe travel, particularly in the Boundary Waters region of northern Minnesota and the Quetico Provincial Park of Ontario.

Elisabeth Congdon

Elisabeth Congdon was born to mining magnate Chester Adgate Congdon, and his wife, Clara Hesperia Bannister Congdon on April 22, 1894 in Duluth, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, USA.

Gwinnett Medical Center

Glancy Rehabilitation Center - a rehabilitation facility with 30 acute care beds located at the Glancy Campus in Duluth, Ga.

Homegrown Music Festival

The first Homegrown Field Guide featuring cover art by Duluth artist Chris Monroe.

J. B. Ford

The Holmes sailed into the Duluth piers past the broken and battered wreck of the Pittsburgh Steamship Companies SS Mataafa which wrecked while trying to enter the piers and subsequently grounded and broke her back on the beach just a few yards from the shore, 9 of the Mataafa crew perishing in the wreck giving history the name Mataafa Storm.

Judge C. R. Magney State Park

It was named for Clarence R. Magney, a former mayor of Duluth and judge on the Minnesota Supreme Court, who was instrumental in getting 11 state parks and scenic waysides established along the North Shore.

KQDS

KQDS-TV, a television station (digital channel 17) licensed to Duluth, Minnesota, United States

Lorraine Moller

Moller ran her first marathon on 23 June 1979, winning Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota in 2:37:37.

Merchant Street Historic District

Designed by Oliver G. Traphagen, newly arrived from Duluth, Minnesota, it boasted Hawaii's first passenger elevator when it opened in 1898.

Minnesota State Highway 23

Grand Avenue in Duluth; the section of Grand Avenue that is marked MN 23 is from 59th Avenue West and I-35 (in West Duluth) to Idaho Street (in the Morgan Park neighborhood)

MTY Food Group

They are Thaï Express, Country Style, Groupe Valentine, Vanelli's, Cultures, La Cremiere, Sushi Shop, Veggirama, Caferama, O'burger, Tiki Ming, Vie & Nam, Au Vieux Duluth Express, FrankxSupreme, ChicknChick, Croissant Plus, Koya Japan, Kim Chi, Panini, Tandori, Tutti Frutti, Villa Madina Mediterranean Cuisine, Sukiyaki, and the Canadian branches of Yogen Früz, Taco Time, and TCBY.

Orrin W. Robinson

By that time, the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway had extended a line to the area with a stop at the growing community that Robinson named Chassell.

Sky Ride

In the United States, only two transporter bridges were ever built: the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, Minnesota in 1905, and the Sky Ride.

Stephanie Venn Petersen

Stephanie Venn Petersen was born in Duluth, Minnesota to Orville Seward Petersen, an insurance salesman, small business owner and former chair of the Proctor School Board and Ruth Alma (Borg) Petersen, an administrative assistant for the 148th Fighter Wing, a unit of the Minnesota National Guard in Duluth, Minnesota.

West Duluth

West Duluth's Spirit Valley business district is easily accessible from Interstate Highway 35 at Central Avenue.

Willie Fritz

Willie Fritz coached at the University of Central Missouri from 1997 until 2009, leading the Mules to their first post-season berth in 32 years when they defeated Minnesota-Duluth in the 2001 Mineral Water Bowl.

Wisconsin Public Television

WPT's public affairs programming is carried by MPTV flagship WMVS in Milwaukee, including Here and Now, while WDSE (channel 8) in the Superior-Duluth market and WRPT (channel 31) in Hibbing air the shows in northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin.

WSKC-CD

Per an application made in 2008, the permit was extended and modified again in 2010, to transmit from a point on the Norcross side of Duluth, just south of the interchange of Buford Highway (Georgia 13 and U.S. 23) and Pleasant Hill Road.

WTBX

In 2008 the station began leaning Adult Top 40 during the evening hours with the addition of tracks topping CHR charts, similar to KBMX in Duluth, MN.