Stay connected with the St. Louis County Historical Society! We publish a newsletter each month in addition to our quarterly publication Rootprints . Click here  to read our January 2026 issue. If you want to be added to our email distribution list, please click to subscribe  or email us at history@thehistorypeople.org . (Image: Chester Park Skiing, Duluth, Minnesota, 1929. Photographer Rodney F. Paine, courtesy UMD Katherine A. Martin Library, originally collected by SLCHS)

St. Louis County Historical Society is Participating in the 17th Annual Give to the Max Fundraiser November 1-20, 2025. Protecting Our Legacy: Why History Needs You Now   The St. Louis County Historical Society holds over 13,000 unique artifacts, including military service medals, vital pieces of our mining legacy, and irreplaceable Ojibwe cultural items. They are tangible proof of your ancestors' stories and the physical evidence of our regional history.  But collecting hist