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The Sawtooth Mountains on the shore of Lake Superior, looking west by southwest from Grand Marais, Minnesota. The Sawtooth Mountains are a range of hills or small mountains on the North Shore of Lake Superior in the U.S. state of Minnesota, extending about 30 miles (48 km) from Carlton Peak near Tofte on the west, to Grand Marais on the east.
Croftville is an unincorporated community in Cook County, Minnesota, United States. The community is located three miles northeast of the city of Grand Marais on Minnesota Highway 61. Highway 61 and County Road 87 (Croftville Road) are two of the main routes in the community. History
Church of St. Francis Xavier is a historic church on Minnesota Highway 61 in Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States. The church began as a Jesuit mission from Fort William, Ontario, in 1855 to minister to the Ojibwe residents of the area. The permanent structure was built in 1895 and was used until declining attendance forced it to close in 1936.
Grand Marais Creek, a 41.1-mile-long (66.1 km) tributary of the Red River of the North in northwestern Minnesota, United States Grand Marais Road (Windsor, Ontario) , a road that travels through Windsor, Ontario
The Brule River is a river of the U.S. state of Minnesota.The Brule River originates at Vista Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and flows 40.4 miles (65.0 km) [1] east and southeast, terminating at Lake Superior approximately 14 mi (23 km) northeast of Grand Marais, Minnesota, within the boundaries of Judge C. R. Magney State Park.
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.
Ojibwe Wigwam at Grand Portage, painted by Eastman Johnson in 1857. As early as 2,000 years ago, Native American Nations probably used Gichi-onigaming, or "the Great Carrying Place", to travel from summer homes on Lake Superior to winter hunting grounds in the interior of Minnesota and Ontario.