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When Jackie and David Bensman first took over the St. Mary’s Apartments on Third Avenue East in 2006, the police had a message for them. “They told us, if nobody’s dead, don’t call,” Jackie recalls. It might have been an offhand remark, but it encapsulated the trouble found here. There […]

June 2, 1874: Duluth’s South Breakwater Light burned for the first time. The light — an octagonal cast-iron lantern housing a fifth-order Fresnel lens — stood atop a wooden pyramid tower on south pier of Duluth’s three-year-old ship canal. It cast a red beacon visible 12.5 miles away. In 1877, […]

Tom Wallin’s first memory of the family house on Park Point that he now calls home is the tall grass. It felt like an African jungle when his grandfather lived at the last home at the end of the point. He also recalls playing like pirates on a beached sailboat. […]