When most people think of Minnesota Lighthouses, they immediately go to Split Rock Lighthouse. But lighthouses are scattered ...

The Split Rock Lighthouse is an octagonal yellow-brick ... at spectacular rate from the first order of 2,000 tons in the fall of 1892 nearly 25 million by 1910. The traffic of iron ore transformed ...

To commemorate the sinking of the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald and the loss of her 29 crew members on Nov. 10, 1975, an annual event is scheduled for Nov. 10 at Split Rock Lighthouse. The event ...

Event includes beacon lighting, bell tolls and reading the names of those drowned In 1975, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald left Superior, Wis., headed for Detroit with 26,000 tons of taconite when ...