For Breakfast we had the Smoked Sugar Cured Lake Trout that we bought yesterday. It was outstanding and as good if not better than the Smoked Whitefish we bought in Gills Rock, northern Door County, WI that we had 2 years ago. That was the standard of excellence until now.
We decided today to drive North up to the Mesabi Iron Range located North of Virginia & Chisholm, MN. On the way we passed the American Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth where the first US Game was played in 1903. Then drove over to Chisholm to see the Ironworld Discovery Center.Very interesting displays, exhibits and museums on the history of the Iron Mines including all the different people who emigrated from Europe to work here as well as all the equipment and growth of technology in mining.
The Museum also had many exhibits of early life in Minnesota including a typical Northern Scandinavian sod house, food storage shed as well as early Homestead Act Cabins and Farmsteads
We continued down to Hibbing and saw the Greyhound Bus Origin Center where the first Greyhound Bus started operation in 1914 to transport miners from Hibbing to Alice. Then visited the Rust Hill Iron Ore Mine which was so vast that from a high overlook you couldn’t see anything but the mining operation from West to East and looking North.
