The Corps of Engineers Building:How the need for bathrooms created a museum

While Duluthians financed the construction of the Duluth Ship Canal—with help from Jay Cooke’s Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad to the tune of $50,000—the federal government took control of the canal after Cooke went broke in 1873, ushering in an international economic depression that cost Duluth its city status in 1877. Along with the canal and its piers, the feds also gained the two strips of land on either side of the canal. The [...]

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How the need for bathrooms created a museum