First store in Babbitt Minnesota, 1920
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase

Construction of House A2, Babbitt Minnesota, 1920
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase

Early taconite location at Babbitt Minnesota, 1920
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase

Duluth & Iron Range bunk cars used during building of
Sulphur Camp near Babbitt Minnesota, 1920
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase

Houses built by the Mesabi Iron Company for its employees, Babbitt, 1920
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase

Arrival of first car into Babbitt by road, 1920
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase

Taconite plant at Babbitt Minnesota, 1922
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase

Abandoned houses at Babbitt Mine, 1937
Courtesy Library of Congress.

Schoolhouse in Babbitt Minnesota 1938
From Old Babbitt: The Plant and the Community 1920 - 1957
By Milt Stenlund and Althea Hocking Stenlund
Published by Heritage North, Grand Rapids Minnesota, 1996

Circa 1946 "Pleasant view" rooming houses near plant. Note plant in upper left.
From Old Babbitt: The Plant and the Community 1920 - 1957
By Milt Stenlund and Althea Hocking Stenlund
Published by Heritage North, Grand Rapids Minnesota, 1996

Babbitt Plant, Babbitt Minnesota, 1950
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase

Babbitt Plant, Babbitt Minnesota, 1952
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The old Babbitt plant of the Mesabi Iron Company was enlarged and rebuilt for use as a test plant by Reserve Mining Company in 1951-52. It operated from 1952-57 producing taconite pellets. Photo from 1952.
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase

Building a rock crusher, Babbitt Minnesota, 1953
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Babbitt Minnesota - New town built to house workers at taconite mine, 1953
Courtesy Life Magazine - click to enlarge

Aerial view of Babbitt Minnesota, 1955
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase

Taconite is blasted loose, then loaded by huge electric powered shovels into forty-five ton side dump trucks, Babbitt Minnesota, 1960
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase

The world's largest coarse crusher built by Reserve Mining Company near its taconite mine at Babbitt Minnesota, 1960
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase

Crushing taconite at Reserve Mining Company's facility in Babbitt Minnesota, 1960
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Large electric power shovels lift five cubic yards of taconite at a time and load it into forty-five ton side-dump trucks to be hauled from the mine to Reserve's coarse-crushing plants at Babbitt Minnesota, 1960
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase

Taconite Plant, Babbitt Minnesota, 1965
Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase

Aerial View, Northshore Mining Company Babbitt Operations - 2003
Courtesy Northshore Mining Company

Duluth Clinic Babbitt, Babbitt Minnesota, 2007
Courtesy Duluth Clinic - click image to enlarge

Babbitt iron ore mine, Babbitt Minnesota, 2007
Courtesy of Cleveland Cliffs

    
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