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Eveleth: former open-pit mine
Eveleth: former open-pit mine Former open-pit mine, Eveleth, Minnesota.

Eveleth

Minnesota, United States
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Eveleth, city, St. Louis county, northeastern Minnesota, U.S. It lies in the Mesabi Range, about 60 miles (95 km) northwest of Duluth. Following the discovery of iron ore in 1892 by early settler David T. Adams, the city was laid out and named for Erwin Eveleth, a Michigan lumberman who visited the area to scout the white pine forest. The original village was about 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of the present location; ore was...

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