The Iron Range: the Key to U.S. Industrialization
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This event was also presented on Thursday, September 9, 2010 from Noon - 1:15p.m. at Valentini’s Supper Club, 31 West Lake Street, Chisholm, MN, 55719 map
EVENT DETAILS
Monday, November 1, 2010
4:30 – 6 p.m.
Blandin Foundation Offices, 100 North Pokegama Avenue, Grand Rapids, MN 55744
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Intended audience: Everyone is welcome!
Speaker: Professor Pamela Brunfelt, Vermilion Community College
What would U.S. history look like without Minnesota’s Iron Range? The discovery of vast iron ore deposits in Minnesota ensured that the United States would emerge as a world power in the Twentieth Century. It is no exaggeration to state that the history of the U.S. would be different without the iron ore produced by the people who lived and worked on the Iron Range of Minnesota. The Mesabi, Vermilion, and Cuyuna Iron Ranges produced billions of tons of high grade iron ore used to manufacture the steel that built America and resulted in victory in World War I and World War II. Iron Rangers have been at the center of the U.S. economy throughout most of the past century, and this program will illustrate why industrialization in the United States was largely the story of Minnesota’s Iron Range.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Professor Pamela Brunfelt received her M.A. in History from Minnesota State University-Mankato and is currently a member of the faculty at Vermilion Community College in Ely, Minnesota, where she teaches courses in American History and Political Science. As a life-long Iron Ranger and historian, Ms. Brunfelt has the unique capability to blend her deep regional knowledge with her scholarship in American history.
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