130 Years of Minnesota Mining: It Began in Soudan

IRRRB Commissioner Tony Sertich presents a proclamation signed by Governor Mark Dayton making Thursday "Minnesota Iron Day".

 MARK SAUER

SOUDAN — July 31, 1884, was a great day on the Iron Range.

It was so important that the hard-working multi-international immigrants of the Soudan Mine got the day off. They celebrated the arrival of Engine No. 8 to be loaded with the first shipment of rich red ore to leave the Iron Range bound for Agate Bay of Lake Superior and then east on the Great Lakes to the steel mills.

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