The city of Duluth: how ancient is it?

The other day YouTube suggested videos started playing a random video about some city I have never heard about before. The name of the city is Duluth, and it is a major port city in the US. It is the 2nd largest city on Lake Superior. More on the city of Duluth you can look up here.

And in 1719...

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Several phrases from the video that caught my attention:

• Her harbor was soon the busiest in the United States outpacing even the port of New York.​
• Soon after the turn of the 20th century Duluth had more millionaires per capita than any city in America​
• If we had retained a lot of those buildings Duluth would look like Prague, or another European city.​

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Demolishing Duluth​

Bulldozers are wiping them out this summer, one by one, those remnants of our rich past, those landmark structures that are - or were - all about who we are, who we used to be, and what it was that made our corner of the world special, unique a...

• Chuck Frederick column: Demolishing Duluth | Duluth News Tribune​

The Lost Architecture of Duluth
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The Great Fire of 1918​

The worst natural disaster in Minnesota history—over 450 dead, fifteen hundred square miles consumed, towns and villages burned flat—unfolded at a frightening pace, lasting less than fifteen hours from beginning to end. The fire began around midday on Saturday, October 12, 1918. By 3:00 a.m. on Sunday, all was over but the smoldering, the suffering, and the recovery.

• What is often called simply the Cloquet Fire was really a host of fires, fifty or more, that combined in a single event. It had two major theaters, one called the Cloquet–Duluth Fire and the other the Moose Lake Fire.​
• The Cloquet–Duluth Fire began before noon on October 10 when a Great Northern locomotive set a small fire at Milepost 62 northwest of Cloquet. It smoldered for two days, then came alive when a cold front brought stiff winds and a steep drop in humidity. At about 1:30 p.m. this fire began to move and join with others.​
• Cloquet, Duluth, and Moose Lake Fires, 1918​
• Cloquet fire - Wikipedia​

Duluthians explore the burned out ruins of the Northland Country Club in Lakeside.​

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KD: I do not know anything about this Duluth City (my wife thought I said "Deluge City" at first). I just find it interesting that our Great Lakes cities have something about them... something suggesting that they could be a bit older than we are lead to believe.

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You know something is up when your 19th century Post Office looks like the one below, and not like this.

Duluth Post Office​