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City Founder Frank Hibbing
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Hibbing Minnesota Photo Gallery
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Itasca Baazar Building at Third Avenue and Howard Street in
Hibbing, 1920
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Minnesota Historical Society - click image to
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Building #12, E.W. Coons owner, operated by Thouin Hardware
and Nides Brothers Clothing, Hibbing
Minnesota, 1920
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Building #13, Bergeron, Hibbing Hardware Company, Hibbing
Minnesota, 1920
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Moving church from Townsite Forty to Park Addition, Hibbing
Minnesota, 1920
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Park Addition showing dwellings moved from Hibbing townsite
Forty,
1920
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Houses built by Oliver Iron Mining Company, Hibbing
Minnesota, 1920
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Hibbing, Minnesota (Images of
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Surrounded by large stands of
virgin white and red pines, an enterprising iron prospector
named Frank Hibbing set up camp on a bitterly cold day in
January of 1892. When he awoke the next day, he insisted
that there was iron beneath him-he could "feel it in his
bones." He staked his claim near that campsite, and after
digging several test pits, one of the world's richest
deposits of iron ore was found.
Beginning as a small collection
of tents and log cabins, the Village of Hibbing was
incorporated in August of 1893. It became one of the largest
of the mining towns along the Mesabi Range, attracting
immigrants of many backgrounds such as Finnish, Italian,
Slavic, Swedish, and Greek. This mixture of diverse
backgrounds gave Hibbing a unique culture that remains
evident today. From Minnesota's famous dual in 1910 between
friends Sam Kacich and Pete Radovich, to the relocation of
the entire village in the 1920s, Hibbing, Minnesota takes us
back in time to the days of pioneers, horse-drawn carriages,
and a love of the land that has been passed on from
generation to generation.
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Houses built by Oliver Iron Mining Company, Hibbing
Minnesota, 1920
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Building number fourteen, C. M. Atkinson, owner, Hibbing
Minnesota, 1920
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Security Service Garage erected and owned by Gus. Anderson,
Hibbing, 1920
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Y. L. Power Building, home of Merchants and Miners Bank,
Hibbing, 1920
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Building number eleven, Golden Rule operated by L. H. Milkes,
Hibbing,
1920
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Howard Street, Hibbing Minnesota, 1920s
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Sellers Mine, Hibbing Minnesota, 1920s?
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The Oliver Club, Hibbing Minnesota, 1920s
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Recreation Building, Hibbing Minnesota, 1920s
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Hibbing High School Auditorium, Hibbing Minnesota, 1920s
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The Mesaba Railway ran streetcar service between Hibbing and North
Hibbing. This car is posed at the north end of the line in front of
the Oliver Hotel on 3rd Avenue in North Hibbing. 1921
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The Androy Hotel, Hibbing Minnesota, 1921
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Sellers Mine, Hibbing Minnesota, 1929
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Marion steam shovel, Model 350, operating North Forty,
Hibbing
Minnesota, 1930
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City Hall and General Hospital, Hibbing
Minnesota, 1930s
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Laying of floor materials during construction of Hibbing
Memorial Building, 1935
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Hibbing Memorial Building, Hibbing Minnesota, 1936
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Hull-Rust Open Pit Mine, Hibbing Minnesota, 1937
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Hull Rust Mine Assembly Yards, Hibbing Minnesota, 1937
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High School, Hibbing Minnesota, 1938
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Hibbing High School, Hibbing Minnesota, 1940
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Park School - the Brick Glass School Building - Hibbing Minnesota,
1940
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Hull Rust Mine, Hibbing Minnesota, 1940s
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Hull-Rust and Sellers Mines, Hibbing Minnesota,
1940s
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South Agnew Mine, Hibbing Minnesota, 1940s
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Hibbing Memorial Building, Hibbing Minnesota,
1940s
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Howard Street looking West, Hibbing Minnesota, early 1940s
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Abandoned buildings in North Hibbing. In 1919 when ore was found to
lie under the town site most of the town was moved by log haulers,
building by building, to its present site. Picture is from 1941.
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Stein's Rexall Drugs and Iron Range Chemical Company in Hibbing,
1945
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Hull Rust Iron Mine, Hibbing Minnesota, 1948
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El Motel, Hibbing Minnesota, 1950s
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Street scene, Hibbing Minnesota, 1950s
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Webb-Susquehanna-Weggum Iron Ore Mines, Hibbing
Minnesota, 1953
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City Hall, Hibbing Minnesota, 1953
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Mesabi Range Underground Mine Shaft, Hibbing Minnesota, 1957
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Observation Tower, Hull Rust Mine, Hibbing Minnesota, 1960s
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Street scene, Hibbing Minnesota, 1960s
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The Inn Town Motel, Hibbing Minnesota, 1960s
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