"This is part of the Iron Range saga. Where towns get abandoned, moved out, homes get moved," said Lamb. After the residents left, a real estate developer bought the houses, moved them and sold ...

Open areas within the northern Minnesota woods called the Shell Prairies ... flourished because of these prairies, that is now a ghost town.

Sparta, Taconite Harbor, Genoa, Penobscot, and Cooley live on in Northern Minnesota’s memory, although there are few physical remnants of the towns that claimed these names. These “locations ...