Range town addition fades to mining

Memories of the Iron Range location of Parkville run thick as mining activity consumes what's left of the community. (Screenshot: WDIO)

Memories of the Iron Range location of Parkville run thick as mining activity consumes what’s left of the community. (Screenshot: WDIO)

Iron Range newsParkville, Minnesota, is a place, but not a town. It’s one of the location villages common to the Iron Range, a place where miners and their families lived a literal stone’s throw from mining activity.

Legally speaking, Parkville is an addition of Mountain Iron, the Mesabi Range’s first town. But U.S. Steel has been gradually buying off property there for years, now nearing plans to move Highway 102 and mine the land beneath.

WDIO featured a story about Parkville on the news Wednesday night. It’s an interesting study in Iron Range history and the attitudes that have come from it.

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