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Duluth, Minnesota Duluth, Minnesota Flag of Duluth, Minnesota Location of the town/city of Duluth Duluth, Minnesota is positioned in the US Duluth, Minnesota - Duluth, Minnesota Duluth Listeni/d lu / is a primary port town/city in the U.S. Duluth has a populace of 86,110 and is the second-largest town/city on Lake Superior's shores, after Thunder Bay, Ontario, in Canada; it has the biggest urbane region on the lake. The Duluth MSA had a populace of 279,771 in 2010, the second-largest in Minnesota. Situated on the north shore of Lake Superior at the westernmost point of the Great Lakes, Duluth is accessible to oceangoing vessels from the Atlantic Ocean 2,300 miles (3,700 km) away via the Great Lakes Waterway and the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Duluth forms a urbane region with neighboring Superior, Wisconsin, called the Twin Ports. The metros/cities share the Duluth Superior harbor and together are the Great Lakes' biggest port, transporting coal, iron ore (taconite), and grain. A tourist destination for the Midwest, Duluth features the United States' only all-freshwater aquarium, the Great Lakes Aquarium; the Aerial Lift Bridge, which spans the Duluth Ship Canal into the Duluth Superior Harbor; and Minnesota Point (known locally as Park Point), the world's longest contaminating baymouth bar, spanning 6 miles (10 km). The town/city is also the starting point for vehicle trips along Minnesota's North Shore. Duluth's name in Ojibwe is Onigamiinsing ("at the little portage"), a reference to the small and easy portage athwart Minnesota Point between Lake Superior and Saint Louis Bay, which forms Duluth's harbor. According to Ojibwe oral history, Spirit Island, near the Spirit Valley neighborhood, was the "Sixth Stopping Place", where the northern and southern chapters of the Ojibwe Nation came together and proceeded to their "Seventh Stopping Place" near the present town/city of La Pointe, Wisconsin. Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Medard des Groseilliers explored the Duluth area, Fond du Lac (Bottom of the Lake) in 1654 and again in 1660. The French soon established fur posts near Duluth and in the far north where Grand Portage became a primary trading center. After 1792 and the independence of the United States, the North West Company established a several posts on Minnesota rivers and lakes, and in areas to the west and northwest, for trading with the Ojibwe, the Dakota, and other native tribes. There, portages connected Lake Superior with Lake Vermillion to the north, and with the Mississippi River to the south. As part of the Treaty of Washington (1854) with the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa, the United States set aside the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation upstream from Duluth near Cloquet, Minnesota. Minnesota Point from the hill above Duluth in 1875 View in the town/city of Duluth, Minnesota Superior Street, from Robert N. A road connecting Duluth to the Twin Cities was also constructed. Eleven small suburbs on both sides of the Saint Louis River were formed, establishing Duluth's roots as a city. Thomas Preston Foster, the founder of Duluth's first newspaper, coined the expression "The Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas". A statue of Jay Cooke by Henry Shrady is positioned in Jay Cooke Plaza near the intersection of 9th Avenue East and Superior Street in Duluth, Minnesota. In 1869 70, Duluth was the fastest-growing town/city in the nation and was expected to surpass Chicago in only a several years. When Jay Cooke, a wealthy Philadelphia territory speculator, convinced the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad to problematic an extension from St. Paul to Duluth, the barns opened areas due north and west of Lake Superior to iron ore mining. Duluth's populace on New Year's Day of 1869 consisted of 14 families; by the Fourth of July, 3,500 citizens were present to jubilate. Around the start of the 20th century, the city's port passed New York City and Chicago in gross tonnage handled, making it the dominant port in the United States. Lake freighters carried iron ore through the Great Lakes to refining plants in Illinois and Ohio. Ten newspapers, six banks and an eleven-story high-rise building, the Torrey Building, had been established and built. As of 1905, Duluth was said to be home to the most millionaires per capita in the United States. Along with the Duluth Works steel plant, US Steel advanced Morgan Park, as a business town for steel workers. It is now a town/city neighborhood inside Duluth. Duluth's huge wholesale Marshall Wells Hardware Company period in 1901 by opening chapters in Portland, Oregon, and Winnipeg, Manitoba; the business catalog totaled 2,390 pages by 1913. The Duluth Showcase Company, which later became the Duluth Refrigerator Company and then the Coolerator Company, was established in 1908. Another lynching in Duluth occurred on June 15, 1920, when three innocent black male circus workers: Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac Mc - Ghie, were attacked by a white mob and hanged after allegedly raping a teenage white girl. Similar industrialized expansions took place amid the Second World War, as Duluth's large harbor and the area's vast natural resources were put to work for the war accomplishment. In 1918, the Cloquet Fire (named for the close-by city of Cloquet) burned athwart Carlton and southern Saint Louis counties, destroying dozens of communities in the Duluth area. Many citizens died on the non-urban roads encircling the Duluth area, and historical accounts tell of victims dying while trying to outrun the fire. In most cases, families which lost their homes also lost most or all of their furniture and personal belongings, the limited time and transit facilities affording little opportunity for saving anything but human life." The National Guard unit based in Duluth was mobilized in a heroic accomplishment to battle the fire and assist victims, but the troops were overwhelmed by the enormity of the fire. Retired Duluth News Tribune columnist and journalist Jim Heffernan writes that his mother "recalled an overnight vigil watching out the window of their small home on lower Piedmont Avenue with her father, her younger sisters having gone to sleep, ready to be evacuated to the waterfront should the need arise. Economic diminish began in the 1950s, when high-grade iron ore ran out on the Iron Range north of Duluth; ore shipments from the Duluth harbor had been critical to the city's economy. In the 1970s America experienced a steel crisis, a recession in the global steel market, and like many American metros/cities Duluth entered a reconstructionof industrialized revamping. In 1981, US Steel closed its Duluth Works plant, a blow to the city's economy whose effects encompassed the closure of the cement company, which had depended on the steel plant for raw materials (slag). Duluth and the encircling area from the Enger Tower in 2004. At the beginning of the 21st century, Duluth has turn into a county-wide epicenter for banking, retail shopping, and medical care for northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and northwestern Michigan. Early doubts about the Duluth area's potential were voiced in "The Untold Delights of Duluth," a speech U.S. Croix and Superior Land Grant lampooned Western boosterism, portraying Duluth as an Eden in fantastically florid terms. Duluth's unofficial sister city, Duluth, Georgia, was titled by Evan P. Proctor Knott is sometimes credited with characterizing Duluth as the "zenith town/city of the unsalted seas," but the honor for that coinage belongs to journalist Thomas Preston Foster, speaking at a Fourth of July picnic in 1868. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 87.43 square miles (226.44 km2); 67.79 square miles (175.58 km2) is territory and 19.64 square miles (50.87 km2) is water. It is Minnesota's second biggest city in terms of territory area, surpassed only by Hibbing. Duluth's canal joins Lake Superior to the Duluth Superior harbor and the Saint Louis River. The Aerial Lift Bridge, on which vehicles cross the canal, joins Canal Park with Minnesota Point ("Park Point"). Minnesota Point is approximately 7 miles long, and when encompassed with adjoining Wisconsin Point, which extends 3 miles out from the town/city of Superior, Wisconsin, is reported to be the biggest contaminating sand spit in the world at a total of 10 miles. Duluth's topography is dominated by a steep hillside that climbs from Lake Superior to high inland elevations. The Sky Harbor airport's weather station, situated on Park Point, has an altitude of 607 feet (185 m), whereas the altitude of Duluth International Airport up on the hill is 1,427 feet (435 m)--820 feet higher. As the town/city has grown, the populace has tended to hug Lake Superior's shoreline, so Duluth is primarily a southwest northeast city. Skyline Parkway is a scenic roadway that extends from Becks Road above the Gary New Duluth neighborhood near the end of the town/city to the Lester Park neighborhood on the east side. It crosses nearly Duluth's entire length and affords breathtaking views of the Aerial Lift Bridge, Canal Park, and the many industries that inhabit the biggest inland port. The 2009 10 road ongoing standard universal in Duluth's Miller Hill region improved transit boss through the U.S. Lake Superior agate found on the shore of Lake Superior in Duluth The geology of Duluth demonstrates the Midcontinent Rift, formed as the North American continent (Laurentia) began to split apart about 1.1 billion years ago. In the Lake Superior region, the upwelling of molten modern may have been the result of a hot spot that produced a dome over the Lake Superior area. The Duluth region displays all elements of these geological affairs. As the last glacier retreated, meltwaters filled the lake to as high as 500 feet above the current level; the Skyline Parkway roughly follows one of the highest levels of the ancient Lake Superior, Glacial Lake Duluth. Duluth has a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfb), slightly moderated by its adjacency to Lake Superior. Winters are long, snowy, and very cold, normally seeing maximum temperatures remaining below 32 F (0 C) on 106 days (the second-most of any town/city in the adjoining US behind International Falls), falling to or below 0 F ( 18 C) on 40 41 evenings and bringing consistent snow cover from late November to late March. Winter storms that pass south or east of Duluth can often set up eastern or northeasterly flow, which leads to occasional upslope lake-effect snow affairs that bring a foot (30 cm) or more of snow to the town/city while areas 50 miles (80 km) inland receive considerably less. Duluth has been called "The Air-Conditioned City" because of the summertime cooling effect of Lake Superior. With an average monthly minimum temperature of 1.5 F and an average monthly maximum temperature of 55.4 F, Duluth was found to be the fifth-coldest town/city in the United States. Climate data for Duluth Int'l, Minnesota (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1871 present) From June 19 20, 2012, Duluth suffered the worst flood in its history, caused by nine inches of precipitation throughout the course of thirty hours. Combined with its rocky sediments, difficult soil and 43 streams and creeks, the town/city could not handle the massive rainfall. Mayor Don Ness declared a state of emergency, asking for nationwide assistance. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton declared a state of emergency, sending the National Guard and the Red Cross to assist in the relief accomplishments. Several sinkholes opened throughout the city, causing massive damage to property and vehicles. Several feet of standing water accumulated in many town/city alleys and parking lots. Streets were turned into rapids and many roads split apart due to the heavy flow of water. A portion of West Skyline Parkway tumbled down the hill, isolating a neighborhood. The Saint Louis River, in Duluth's Fond du Lac neighborhood, flooded Highway 23, isolating that neighborhood as well, and damaging roadways and bridges. Duluth has always been considered a 'safe haven' from tornadoes, considering its latitude and locale next to the climate-moderating Lake Superior. At the time the National Weather Service reported that it was Duluth's first tornado. Further investigation showed that more than 50 years ago, on May 26, 1958, Duluth had a "miniature tornado" that collapsed a garage and damaged two region lake cabins. The News-Tribune reported a possible twister on July 11, 1935: "Swirling into the town/city on the wings of a torrential rain, a miniature tornado hit in the heart of the Gary-New Duluth precinct shortly before 8 a.m. The United States weather agency had no means of officially recording the twister, the high wind having limited itself to the Gary-New Duluth district." Main articles: Duluth City Council and Neighborhoods of Duluth, Minnesota See also: List of mayors of Duluth, Minnesota Duluth is in Minnesota's 8th congressional district, represented by Rick Nolan of the Democratic Farmer Labor Party. The town/city is the heart of the state's 7th legislative district, represented in the Minnesota Senate by Roger Reinert and in the Minnesota House of Representatives by Jennifer Schultz (District 7 - A) and Erik Simonson (District 7 - B), all members of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which has long dominated the city's politics. The town/city of Duluth is protected by 132 paid, experienced firefighters of the town/city of Duluth Fire Department. The Duluth Fire Department responded to 12,231 fire and emergency medical calls in 2015. The Duluth Fire Department operates out of 8 fire stations throughout the city, under the command of an Assistant Chief, Squad 251. American Victory (then, the Middletown) passing beneath Duluth's aerial lift bridge Duluth is the primary county-wide center for community care, higher education, retail, and company services not only of its own immediate region but also of a larger region encompassing northeastern Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Duluth has thriving a several new engineering firms including TKDA, Barr Engineering, LHB, Enbridge and Lake Superior Consulting. The town/city is home to the EPA's Mid-Continent Ecology Division Laboratory and the University of Minnesota Duluth. Duluth is a convenient base for trips to the scenic North Shore via Highway 61 and to fishing and wilderness destinations in Minnesota's far north, including the Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Tourists also may drive on the North Shore Scenic Drive to Gooseberry Falls State Park, Baptism Falls (Minnesota's biggest waterfall), the vertical cliff of Palisade Head, Isle Royale National Park (reached via ferry), Grand Portage National Monument in Grand Portage, and High Falls of the Pigeon River (on the Canada US border). The Benoist XIV (Lark of Duluth) on Lake Erie in 1914 In the summer of 1913, the world's first heavier-than-air airline service opened in the form of a biplane flying boat titled Lark of Duluth, offering joyrides over the Duluth harbor. After being purchased and used for scheduled flights in Florida, the plane returned to Duluth and other locations for passenger flights in 1914, until it was ultimately damaged in a difficult landing later that year in California and pronounced unsalvageable. A replica of the 1913 Lark of Duluth was constructed and flown by the Duluth Aviation Institute in 2013, to memorialize the 100th anniversary of commercial aviation. Founded in 1984 in southern Wisconsin by brothers Alan and Dale Klapmeier to produce the VK-30 kit airplane , the business moved to Duluth in 1994. As of 2016, Cirrus had produced the world's best-selling four- to five-seat aircraft for over 12 years in a row, the SR22, and certified the world's first single-engine personal jet, the Vision SF50. Cirrus presently employs over 1,000 citizens . In 2012, another airplane manufacturer, Kestrel Aircraft, manufacturer of the K-350 turboprop plane and now known as ONE Aviation, decided to open a branch in the Twin Ports. Later that year, AAR Corp opened an airplane repair and maintenance facility on the Duluth airport. The Air Force chose the 148th Air National Guard based in Duluth as one of a handful of National Guard units to establish an Active Association, bringing new active duty Air Force jobs to the region. The Duluth region marks the northern endpoint of Interstate Highway 35, which stretches south to Laredo, Texas. The southwestern part of the town/city has Thompson Hill, where travelers entering Duluth on I-35 can see most of Duluth, including the Aerial Lift Bridge and the waterfront. There are two freeway connections from Duluth to Superior. Highway 23 runs diagonally athwart Minnesota, indirectly connecting Duluth to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Highway 33 provides a bypass of Duluth connecting Interstate 35, which comes up from the Twin Cities, to U.S. Highway 194 provides a spur route into the town/city of Duluth known as "Central Entrance" and Mesaba Avenue. Highway 61 and parts of Highways 2 and 53 are segments of the Lake Superior Circle Tour route that follows Lake Superior through Minnesota, Ontario, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Duluth International Airport serves the town/city and encircling region with daily flights to Minneapolis and Chicago. Nearby municipal airports are Duluth Sky Harbor on Minnesota Point and the Richard I. Located at the end of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, the Duluth Superior seaport is the biggest and farthest-inland contaminating seaport in North America. With 49 miles (79 km) of waterfront, it is one of the dominant bulk cargo ports in North America and rates among the top 20 ports in the United States. Duluth is a primary shipping port for taconite pellets, made from concentrated low-grade iron ore and destined for midwestern and easterly steel mills. The former Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway, now part of the Canadian National Railway, operates taconite-hauling trains in the area. The small-town bus fitness is run by the Duluth Transit Authority, which serves Duluth, Hermantown, Proctor and Superior, Wisconsin. Duluth is also served by Skyline Shuttle, with daily service to the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, and Jefferson Lines, with daily service to the Twin Cities. Duluth gets electric power from Duluth-based Minnesota Power, a subsidiary of ALLETE Corporation. Minnesota Power produces energy at generation facilities positioned throughout northern Minnesota and a generation plant in North Dakota. Minnesota Power primarily uses coal to generate electricity, but also has a number of small hydroelectric facilities, the biggest of which is the Thomson Dam southwest of Duluth on the Saint Louis River. Throughout its history Duluth's sewers have overflowed when it rained, causing improving sewage to flow into Lake Superior and the Saint Louis River. Over the past five years the City of Duluth has taken extraordinary measures to completely eliminate sewage overflows and in 2013 the improvements are three years ahead of schedule. Main article: Media in Duluth, Minnesota Local newspapers include the Business - North monthly, the Duluth News Tribune, the Duluth Budgeteer News, the no-charge newspapers Transistor, The Zenith, and The Reader Weekly. Main article: List of schools in Duluth, Minnesota Local universities and universities include the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD); the UMD ground includes a medical school. Scholastica, Lake Superior College, and Duluth Business University. The Weber Music Hall on the ground of the University of Minnesota Duluth was designed by noted architect Cesar Pelli. Most enhance schools are administered by Duluth Public Schools. Several autonomous and enhance charter schools also serve Duluth students. The biggest is Duluth Edison Charter Schools, a enhance charter school covering grades K-8. Marshall School, a private college preliminary school established as Duluth Cathedral in 1904, covers grades 4 12. Duluth has four Catholic schools with coverage up to grades 6 or 8, two Protestant schools, two Montessori schools, and six other charter and private schools. Due to its adjacency to the Great Lakes, Duluth is the locale for the Large Lakes Observatory. The Large Lakes Observatory operates the biggest university-owned research vessel in the Great Lakes, the R/V Blue Heron. Museums include the Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota Duluth and the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum. The premiere improve art center is the Duluth Art Institute, with arcades, a fiber studio and darkroom in the Depot downtown and ceramic and multi-purpose studios in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. The Duluth Public Library has three locations. Duluth is also home to a experienced ballet company, the Minnesota Ballet. Duluth shares a symphony orchestra the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra with Superior, Wisconsin. Duluth is where the Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards are given, honoring books about the region. Lester River, one of 28 rivers and streams that run through Duluth Duluth has various parks, including six parks on Lake Superior: Brighton Beach Park, Leif Erickson Park, Canal Park on Park Point, the Lakewalk (connecting Canal Park and Leif Erickson Park via the lakeshore), Lafayette Park on Park Point, and Park Point Recreation Area near the end of Park Point, where a sand beach invites swimming in the lake. Park Point Pine Forest, positioned at the tip of Park Point, is prominent for bird watching in the spring and fall when various shore birds use the region as a resting point amid their migration. Duluth's other parks include Lester Park, Congdon Park, Hartley Park, Chester Park, the Rose Garden (next to Leif Erickson Park), Bayfront Festival Park, Cascade Park, Enger Park, Lincoln Park, Brewer Park, Fairmount Park, Indian Point Park, Magney Snively Park, and Fond du Lac Park, as well as some small neighborhood parks and athletic fields. Lester Park, Congdon Park, Hartley Park, and Chester Park have trail systems, and three of these parks all except Hartley also have waterfalls, as does Lincoln Park. The ship was invited to Duluth by Norwegian-American immigrant and businessman H.H. When the crew landed in Duluth on June 23, 1927, they had traveled a distance of 6,700 miles, the greatest distance for a ship of its size in undivided history. Hundreds of citizens lined the dock to greet the ship as it sailed into the Duluth harbor. Duluthian Emil Olson purchased the ship soon after the voyage, and donated the Leif Erikson to the City of Duluth. The ship was placed on display in Duluth's Lake Park, which was later titled Leif Erikson Park. Located inside Leif Erickson Park and overlooking Lake Superior, the Duluth Rose Garden is a formal English style garden with more than 3,000 rose bushes and 12,000 non-rose plantings, including day lilies, evergreen shrubs, different perennials and an herb garden. The six acre garden grows in soil resting over a highway tunnel that encloses the termination point of the freeway entering Duluth. Jay Cooke State Park is a Minnesota state park positioned about ten miles (16 km) southwest of Duluth. Duluth offers various outside activities including fishing, hiking, skiing, sailing, canoeing, kayaking, and both biking and mountain biking. The town/city has many indoor and outside ice rinks, including curling facilities. Duluth is also home to the Lake Superior Surfing Club which presently has about 50 members who surf the cold waters of Lake Superior. The University of Minnesota Duluth Recreational Sport Outdoor Program offers classes in kayak, stand-up paddleboarding, or canoe whitewater river running, and they hold the Annual St. Lake Superior Agate Duluth The Minnesota state gem, the Lake Superior agate, can be found on the shores of Lake Superior or the streams that run into it, and in gravel pits and road cuts. Duluth's Park Point is an excellent region for hunting. Books are available in Duluth to help amateur modern hounds learn more about agates, and how to locate them. Since 1977, Duluth has played host to Grandma's Marathon, held annually in June. The course starts just outside Two Harbors, Minnesota, runs down Old Highway 61 (the former route of Highway 61 along the North Shore of Lake Superior), and finishes in one of Duluth's tourism neighborhoods, Canal Park. Duluth hosts a 39-mile (63 km) segment of the Superior Hiking Trail, which is also part of the North Country National Scenic Trail the nation's longest hiking trail. This trail segment passes through or near Jay Cooke State Park, Ely Peak, Bardon Peak, the Magney Snively old expansion forest, Spirit Mountain, Enger Park, Point of Rocks, the Lakewalk, Chester Park, UMD's Bagley nature trails, and Hartley Park. The longer 400-mile (644 km) course takes a round trip from Duluth to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. The 150-mile (241 km) course departs from Duluth and ends in Tofte, Minnesota. The Duluth region also has a large and active Nordic skiing community, with many parks providing excellent Nordic skate skiing as well as classic cross-country skiing opportunities. Duluth is considered a world-class sailing destination and the Duluth Superior harbor has a several marinas, the Duluth Yacht Club, and the Duluth-Superior Sailing Association. Duluth is also the finishing destination for the Biennial Trans Superior International Yacht Race. In Duluth the right season for surfing is winter, especially amid one of Lake Superior's continuing gales of November. Wearing a thick neoprene wetsuit, or perhaps two, surfers gather at Stoney Point, a rocky bay about 15 miles north of Duluth, where waves as high as 15 feet can be expected. Paul described the Duluth surfing experience as "...standing in the snow, jumping off of an ice-covered modern into Lake Superior to go catch waves that any surfer anywhere in the world, pro or beginner, would envy." Duluth enthusiasts had a website maintained by the Lake Superior Surf Club where they share knowledge and photos. The Aerial Lift Bridge, spanning the Duluth Ship Canal into Duluth's harbor, is a vertical lift bridge. The wreck of the Thomas Wilson, a classic early 20th century whaleback ore boat, lies underwater less than a mile outside the Duluth harbor ship canal. The 610' long former ore ship William A Irvin is a exhibition ship along the Duluth waterfront. The Great Lakes Aquarium is positioned in the Duluth Waterfront Park. The Lake Superior Railroad Museum is positioned in the old Duluth barns station. The compilation includes the William Crooks, which became the first locomotive to operate in the state of Minnesota in 1861, and the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Number 227, a 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" locomotive which was among the biggest steam engines to ever operate. Enger Tower is an 80-foot (24 m), five-story blue contemporary observation fortress up on Enger Hill in Duluth, Minnesota. The North Shore Scenic Railroad is a tradition barns that operates between Duluth and Two Harbors, Minnesota. The century-old venue is generally considered a small-town landmark, and once restoration is complete, it will serve as a center for arts and entertainment in the downtown district. Being managed by the Duluth Playhouse, it will be a mid-sized venue that will offer a state-of-the-art facility for local, regional, and nationwide performers. Canal Park is a recreation-oriented precinct of Duluth. This conversion began in the 1980s as an attempt to use Duluth's rich industrialized past, the diminish of which had left the town/city in economic turmoil. Founded in 1930, the Duluth Children's Museum in the Lincoln Park neighborhood is the fifth-oldest of its kind in the United States. Each year in November, Duluth is the home of the Christmas City of the North Parade. Duluth fielded a National Football League team called the Kelleys (officially the Kelley Duluths after the Kelley-Duluth Hardware Store) from 1923 to 1925 and the Eskimos (officially Ernie Nevers' Eskimos after the early NFL great, their star player) from 1926 to 1927. The Duluth Superior Dukes of the Northern League Independent Professional Baseball played in West Duluth's Wade Stadium from the league's inception in 1993 until 2002 when the team moved to Kansas City, Kansas, and became the Kansas City T-Bones. The University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldog hockey games are a primary event in town amid the cold Duluth winters. Games are televised locally, and thousands watch the games in person at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center (DECC). The Duluth Dukes are an amateur baseball team that plays its home games at Bulldog Park on the ground of the University of Minnesota Duluth and at Wade Stadium. The Duluth Xpress are an amateur baseball team that plays its games at the Ordean Middle School baseball field. The Duluth Huskies are a college summer wood bat league baseball team based in Duluth and playing in the Northwoods League. The Twin Ports North Stars are an amateur baseball team that plays its games at Ordean Field at Duluth East High School. The National Premier Soccer League team Duluth Football Club (Duluth FC) plays its home games at Denfeld High School's Public Schools Stadium. All American Bandy League matches are played at Guidant John Rose Minnesota Oval in Roseville. In 2012, Dynamo Duluth rather than 2nd in the league. and in 2013 they became champions for the first time. In 2009 they won North American Cup, which is rink bandy. The Harbor City Roller Dames, a 19+ league, was established in 2007 and is Duluth Superior's first women's flat-track roller derby league. There is also a second derby league in the Cloquet region called Duluth Derby Divas. Steel former business town of Morgan Park, now the present day neighborhood of Morgan Park of Duluth. Paul reporter wanted to set the record straight, so the journal ran a story on May 23, 1936 about how the dessert was really invented inside a Superior Street restaurant in Duluth, Minnesota in the 1880s. This was over a decade before Townsend first ordered pie with ice cream in New York, making Duluth the true place of birth of Pie a la Mode. The Duluth Pack supply store is positioned in the Canal Park area. Arriving in Duluth in 1870 with a small stock of leather and tools, he began a shoe store and quickly made a go of it in what was then a booming frontier town on the shores of Lake Superior. Anderson died the following year when his plane crashed about 400 meters from the Duluth International Airport amid an experimental test flight assessing shifts Cirrus prepared to use in production. You'll Like My Mother (1972) Feature film shot on locale in and around Duluth, principally at Glensheen Historic Estate. Far North (1988) Feature film shot on locale in and around Duluth. The Good Son (1993) Feature film partially shot on locale near Duluth, namely Palisade Head on Lake Superior's north shore. The 1983 Gore Vidal novel Duluth was set in a stylized version of Duluth. The 2008 American sports comedy film Leatherheads, starring and directed by George Clooney, was set in Duluth. (Leatherheads was actually filmed in North and South Carolina.) The film featured a fictitious football team called the Duluth Bulldogs. A pivotal scene in the beginning of chapter four treats the incineration of the town/city of Duluth by the extraterrestrial invaders' machines with some detail, even mentioning downtown Duluth's Alworth Building and including a group of characters' escape along Highway 61. A series of suspense novels by author Brian Freeman featuring the fictional police lieutenant Jonathan Stride take place in and around Duluth and feature real locations from the city. In The Great Gatsby, the title character is said to have been taken to Duluth by Dan Cody, the millionaire who'd taken him under his wing. 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