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William “Bill” Kerfoot. . . ( m. 1934) . Children. Neal, Bruce, Pat and Sharon. Justine Kerfoot (1906 – May 30, 2001) was an American writer and outdoors-woman who moved to the Boundary Waters in Minnesota in 1927 and helped establish the Gunflint Lodge and the overall Gunflint Trail area. She was the author of two published books and co ...
Gunflint Lodge. Gunflint Lodge is one of the oldest and the best known lodges on the Gunflint Trail in Minnesota, United States. It is located on Gunflint Lake, on the border of Ontario, Canada, and is open year-round. Built in 1925 by Dora Blankenburg and her son Russell Blankenburg, the lodge was sold in 1927 to May and Justine Spunner, and ...
Opened. 1888. Closed. 1893. The Paulson Mine is a former iron ore mine located in Cook County, Minnesota, United States, 53 kilometres north-west of Grand Marais, Minnesota near the end of the historic Gunflint Trail. The Port Arthur, Duluth and Western Railway was built to the mine in 1892 to access the ore, but both the mine and railway failed.
Gunflint chert. The Gunflint chert (1.88 Ga [1]) is a sequence of banded iron formation rocks that are exposed in the Gunflint Range of northern Minnesota and northwestern Ontario along the north shore of Lake Superior. The Gunflint Chert is of paleontological significance, as it contains evidence of microbial life from the Paleoproterozoic. [2]
Gunflint Trail Scenic Byway signage. Gunflint Trail National Scenic Byway is a 57-mile (92 km) road following County Road 12 in Cook County, Minnesota's northeastern tip. The byway begins in Grand Marais and passes through Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Many recreational opportunities exist along the ...
Gunflintia is an extinct genus of cyanobacteria that once existed in what is now Canada and Australia. It was about five micrometres wide, and is known for being one of the first oxygen-producing cyanobacteria, which helped raise oxygen levels in the atmosphere, making Earth more habitable for other oxygen-using organisms.
5, including Bob Jr. Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini Guccione ( / ɡuːtʃiˈoʊni / goo-chee-OH-nee; [a] December 17, 1930 – October 20, 2010) was an American visual artist, photographer and publisher. He founded the adult magazine Penthouse in 1965. This was aimed at competing with Hugh Hefner 's Playboy, but with more explicit erotic ...
Monte Vista Hotel, built 1887, demolished 1964. Park Plaza Hotel, built 1920s. The Peninsula Beverly Hills. Pico House, built 1869–70, exists as historic landmark. Raffles L'Ermitage, built 1970s. Roosevelt Hotel, opened 1927. Sheraton Town House/Sheraton West, opened 1929. Sportsmen's Lodge, operating since the 1880s. Standard Hotel, opened ...