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Grand Rapids is a city in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States, and it is the county seat.The population was 11,126 at the 2020 census. [2] The city is named for the 3.5-mile (5.6 km) long rapids in the Mississippi River which was the uppermost limit of practical steamboat travel during the late 19th century.
Grand Marais Creek is a 41.1-mile-long (66.1 km) [1] tributary of the Red River of the North in northwestern Minnesota, the United States. Via the Red River, Lake Winnipeg , and the Nelson River , it is part of the Hudson Bay watershed.
Cook County ISD 166, also known as Cook County Schools, is a school district headquartered in Grand Marais, Minnesota. It is in northeast Minnesota. The square mileage is 3,800 square miles (9,800 km 2). [1] Its service area is all of Cook County. [2]
The Lightkeeper's House, also known as the Cook County History Museum, is a historic building in Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States.. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and was nominated for being "a significant survivor of the settlement along Minnesota's north shore during the last decades of the nineteenth century.
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Map of Grand Marais Harbor. In the 1870s, shipping traffic through Lake Superior increased tremendously. [6] Realizing the lack of a safe harbor between Whitefish Bay and Grand Island, the Army Corps of Engineers began upgrading the harbor at Grand Marais in 1881. Over the next ten years, the Corps dredged the harbor and constructed a 5,770 ...
Grand Marais, Louisiana, a Creole unincorporated community in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States; Grand Marais, Manitoba, Canada; Grand Marais, Michigan, United States; Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States; Grand Marais, Seeland, Switzerland; Grand Marais Creek, a 41.1-mile-long (66.1 km) tributary of the Red River of the North in ...
The Grand Portage was developed in order to avoid numerous short portages. [9] Beginning at the stockade on Grand Portage Bay of Lake Superior, the 8.5-mile (13.7 km) trail leads westward into the wilderness to a mid-point on the Pigeon River, bypassing numerous rapids and a variety of waterfalls