The slice from PBS North.

I'm Skip lamb.

I'm basically with the cross River Heritage Center we are an official information center, sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Transportation.

So we're in that category of passing out those information that the travelers want.

the store, which used to be here, which was basically like a community center, it functioned as a post office.

It functioned as a grocery store.

It supplied groceries to the, Lakers that came in down to Taconite Harbor.

So it was a busy hub and the store itself, belonged to my great uncle.

And he built this building in 1922 when, his original store, which was overlooking the cross River falls, which is right next door, burned down and the dot did not allow him to build his building because it was too close to the river.

it functioned through the, the depression and through the, the tourism cycle, the building, the new road that basically went to Canada, along Lake Superior, which was just been finished in the mid 1900s.

we've developed our own story boards as well as the Native American storyboards, and we borrow storyboards from other historical society so that we have a rotating display every year.

where Schroeder seems to have a boom.

We logged off all the white pine around the turn of the century with John Schroeder.

And then, of course, we had tourism.

And then, of course, we had the taconite industry, which started up here in 55 and ran through the, the 2000.

So we have all of those stories here kind of preserved.

And we also have the stories of the local, people that lived here.

certainly the million acres of Superior national forest and the million acres of the bwca kind of being right on our doorstep is a big asset for the Heritage Center and for folks that are coming into the area to get that information they need.

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