Duluth, Minnesota, USA
1916

Duluth, a city and port of entry, the capital of St. Louis co., Minn., is finely situated at the W. end of Lake Superior, at the head of navigation on the Great Lakes, 156 miles NNE. of St. Paul and adjacent to the city of Superior, Wis., on the Northern Pacific and other railroads. Lat. 46° 48' N. ; Ion. 92° 6' W. The site is the slope of a hill which rises gradually from the shore to a height of about 500 feet above the lake. The Boulevard Drive, on an old terrace of the lake, affords a fine view of the surroundings. The harbor, called Duluth Bay, is protected by a narrow piece of land called Minnesota Point, which is several miles long and forms a natural breakwater, through which there is a ship-canal. Duluth contains a number of imposing edifices, and has extensive stock-yards, slaughtering and cold-storage establishments, blast-furnaces, machine- shops, saw- and flouring-mills, and grain-elevators with a capacity of 30,000,000-40,000,000 bushels. It has a large trade in iron and steel manufactures and is the outlet of the important mineral region of the vicinity. Upward of 2000 vessels enter and dear the port annually. Lumber is largely exported. Duluth is the seat of a Protestant-Episcopal and a Roman Catholic bishop, and has a state normal school, a United States Fisheries building, etc. It was incorporated as a city in 1870. Pop. in 1880, 3483 ; in 1890, 33,115 ; in 1900, 52,969.

Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher

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