| Cuyuna Iron Range Municipally-Owned Elevated Metal Water Tanks | |
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| Location: | Crosby, Minnesota Cuyuna, Minnesota Deerwood, Minnesota Ironton, Minnesota Trommald, Minnesota |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Area: | Cuyuna Range |
| Built/Founded: | 1912-1918 |
| Architect: | Des Moines Bridge & Iron Co. Crosby is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. Cuyuna is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. Deerwood is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. Ironton is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. Trommald is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. The Cuyuna Range is an iron range to the southwest of the Mesabi Range, largely within Crow Wing County Minnesota. ; Minneapolis Steel Machinery Co. |
| Added to NRHP: | October 22, 1980 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 80002027 [1] |
| MPS: | Cuyuna Iron Range Municipally-Owned Elevated Metal Water Tanks TR |
| Governing body: | Local |
The Cuyuna Iron Range Municipally-Owned Elevated Metal Water Tanks are a group of five water towers within the Cuyuna Range in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of Events 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of A water tower, watershed, or elevated water tower is a large elevated water storage container The Cuyuna Range is an iron range to the southwest of the Mesabi Range, largely within Crow Wing County Minnesota. Crow Wing County is a County located in the US state of Minnesota. The water tanks, built between 1912 and 1918, are significant because they represent the historical period of community planning, public works, and engineering that supported the development of the Cuyuna Range. Their construction was made possible by a favorable property tax arrangement on the iron mines that brought significant revenues to the towns of Crosby, Cuyuna, Deerwood, Ironton, and Trommald. Property tax, or millage tax, is an Ad valorem tax that an owner pays on the value of the property being taxed The communities began around 1910, when iron mining started on the Range. The peak of mining employment was around 1920, and it started to decline around 1930. By the 1950s, iron mining was well in decline on the Cuyuna Range. The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive Today, the towns of Trommald and Cuyuna are almost ghost towns. [2]
State historian Theodore Blegen wrote, "A singular aspect of range-town life was the blossoming of schools, community buildings, parks, splendid streets, and other public improvements built generously, not to say lavishly. They set standards far beyond those of most Minnesota cities at the time. These reflected at once a public desire for the best, a concern on the part of citizens for the education of their children, and the availability of taxes to provide the funds without stint for public wants. " Even the smaller communities were able to install complete water systems. After the end of iron mining, as the communities lost population, many of the publicly funded improvements such as schools have disappeared, and many of the houses have either been torn down or were left abandoned and dilapidated. Within Trommald and Cuyuna, the water towers are the most visible remains of the mining boom years. [2]
References
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2006-03-15). Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus,
- ^ a b National Register of Historic Places - Nomination Form: Cuyuna Iron Range Municipally-Owned Elevated Metal Water Tanks Thematic Resources (pdf) (1979). Retrieved on 2007-02-22. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne