D&IR Railroad Depot Museum

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The Depot Museum located in the 1907 headquarters of the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad, highlights the early pioneering history of the county including exhibits on Lake County archaeological digs to the first shipment of iron ore from Minnesota and the vast logging companies from the turn-of-the-century. The museum faces the harbor, site of the first shipment of iron ore from Minnesota. More then 10 million tons of ore are still shipped from this port annually.