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Lake Superior’s Hidden Histories | Duluth News
In 1926, a Virginia lodge sparked chaos by raffling a “live baby” — turns out it was a piglet, and the Humane Society president may have overreacted. Fast forward to 1976: Honeywell dumped 350 tons of scrap metal into Lake Superior between 1959-62. In 1956, John Leighton became Minnesota’s oldest resident as Duluth’s Unity School opened and the Kom-On-Inn burned down. By 2006, Great Lakes ports handled 68 million pounds of U.S. aid grain — a move Congressmen James Oberstar hailed as correcting long-standing anti-lakes bias. And in 2014, the Algoma Spirit carried 25,100 metric tons of wheat…
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