Carlton County Historical Society

Carlton County Historical Society Welcome! We share historic photos and keep you up to date on our events! Mission statement: History connects us.

CCHS collects and shares the histories of Carlton County, finding multiple voices and paths that connect our past, present, and future. We are a free public museum that welcomes everyone to explore exhibits or research in our archives. We are dedicated to preserving the unique history of Carlton County. We not only collect artifacts and remember important events, we also gather the countless indiv

idual stories left behind by our ancestors and neighbors. We are proud to serve Carlton County in the collection, preservation, and dissemination of the history of the county.

Snapshot from Thorvald Schantz-Hansen's photo album from 1919. Crusing around in a convertible looked a little differen...
06/02/2026

Snapshot from Thorvald Schantz-Hansen's photo album from 1919. Crusing around in a convertible looked a little different in 1919!

"The End of a Perfect Day" at Jay Cooke Park, 1919. This photo was part of a scrapbook from Thorvald Schantz-Hanson from...
05/29/2026

"The End of a Perfect Day" at Jay Cooke Park, 1919. This photo was part of a scrapbook from Thorvald Schantz-Hanson from Cloquet. Many more snapshots to come!

05/27/2026

The museum will be closed at 2pm today for our director's retirement party! We will be open with our regular hours tomorrow.

Sawmill in Cloquet, sometime after the horses retired! It looks like a mixture of new machinery and old wagons. Can anyo...
05/22/2026

Sawmill in Cloquet, sometime after the horses retired! It looks like a mixture of new machinery and old wagons. Can anyone help date this photo based on the tractors?

Cloquet Sawmill lumber stacks, n.d. The aerial photos we have of these stacks don't show just how high they are! It's ha...
05/19/2026

Cloquet Sawmill lumber stacks, n.d. The aerial photos we have of these stacks don't show just how high they are! It's hard to imagine the amount of lumber just in Cloquet, let alone all of Carlton County!

05/19/2026

Have you ever wondered what a carte-de-visite is? Or a cyanotype? Or stereograph? Do you want to learn more about historic photographic formats? Then be sure to check out MDL’s format highlight primary source sets! Each set explains what these formats are and why they are significant, and they feature examples of each format from MDL collections.

Visit our site at https://mndigital.org/projects/primary-source-sets and filter the results to “Format Highlights” to access sets on each of these formats:
-Cabinet Cards
-Carte de Visites
-Cyanotypes
-Glass Plate Negatives
-Postcards
-Stereographs

Which format should we highlight next? Comment below!

Image: Cyanotype of Union Depot in Duluth, 1900-1910. University of Minnesota Duluth Archives & Special Collections, https://collection.mndigital.org/catalog/umd:8565

John Bergeron, Pond Foreman for the Cloquet Lumber Company, walking across floating logs in 1920. He looks very confiden...
05/15/2026

John Bergeron, Pond Foreman for the Cloquet Lumber Company, walking across floating logs in 1920. He looks very confident with his steps! Would you be?

The Cloquet Lumber Company store. George Shaw lived above the store. It was located on the corner of 6th Street and Cloq...
05/12/2026

The Cloquet Lumber Company store. George Shaw lived above the store. It was located on the corner of 6th Street and Cloquet Ave. The lumber company is behind the store. Pre 1918.

Another interior photo of a Cloquet Sawmill, late 1800s or early 1900s. The sign on the left says "Winne Boujoun Selects...
05/08/2026

Another interior photo of a Cloquet Sawmill, late 1800s or early 1900s. The sign on the left says "Winne Boujoun Selects". The sign on the light is hard to make out, but it looks like "UP?? River Cork Pine". After sorting, the logs go through the slots on either side, further into the sawmill.

Address

406 Cloquet Avenue
Cloquet, MN
55720

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 3pm

Telephone

(218) 879-1938

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