When Jackie and David Bensman first took over the St. Mary’s Apartments on Third Avenue East in 2006, the police had a message for them. “They told us, if nobody’s dead, don’t call,” Jackie recalls. It might have been an offhand remark, but it encapsulated the trouble found here. There […]
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This month in Duluth history in Duluth News Tribune
June 2, 1874: Duluth’s South Breakwater Light burned for the first time. The light — an octagonal cast-iron lantern housing a fifth-order Fresnel lens — stood atop a wooden pyramid tower on south pier of Duluth’s three-year-old ship canal. It cast a red beacon visible 12.5 miles away. In 1877, […]
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