Birds eye view Virginia, Minnesota, 1914 – Antique Map Print
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Birds eye view Virginia, Minnesota, 1914 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Birds eye view Virginia, Minnesota, 1914
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Virginia, Minnesota, sits on the Mesabi Iron Range in St. Louis County, and in 1914 its fortunes rose and fell with the iron ore beneath the surrounding hills. Mines and their railroads moved ore south toward the lake port at Duluth, so the town's payroll depended on shipping seasons and on the price of steel far away. The population was made up largely of immigrants from Finland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, and other parts of southern and eastern Europe, who built churches, lodges, and mutual aid societies along the town's streets. Across Europe that summer, the outbreak of war in Europe was beginning to reach the Range, where demand for ore and the news from home shaped daily conversation. This view shows the town as its residents knew it: a mining community still growing outward from its center.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Minnesota |
| Original scan | 5,313 × 960 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | MN Birds eye view Virginia 1914 |
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