Hermantown (Minn.)

This collection is intended to accommodate miscellaneous, primary documents related to the October 12, 13, 1918 Cloquet-Moose Lake forest fire and its aftermath when provenance or donor information about the material is unclear or not known.

The collection consists of form 391, 2 pages, Directions for Use of Period and Daily Report for School Lunch Project which supplies directions for how to fill out the report form columns 1-11.

Correspondence, ephemera, and other materials related to Deborah Ortman's environmental and political activism in Duluth, Minnesota, Hermantown, Minnesota, and the surrounding area.

Contains correspondence from the government regarding the Homestead Project, papers covering the incorporation of the association in 1939, a complete set of minutes of the association, financial records of the association, the refinancing of the association, and the association’s dissolution in 1954.  Also included are papers on the development of the locker plant and community store and the association’s contribution to the Hermantown School.

Records of Good Neighbors for Responsible Growth, a community activist group in Hermantown, Minnesota that fought the expansion of the Hermantown Wal-Mart into a Wal-Mart superstore in 2004 and 2005. The collection includes correspondence, ephemera, documents and studies related to the proposed expansion, and other materials.

Reminiscence related to two families victimized by the Moose Lake-Cloquet Forest Fire of 1918 when it burned Hermantown, near Duluth. The families were Oscar and Rosa Fichtner and Anton and Emilie Klosowsky.

Records related to the establishment of the Hermantown Senior / Community Center, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, meeting minutes, and other documents.

The students of Hermantown High School produced a history of Hermantown in video format for a class project. The video is titled Hermantown: Times and Transitions.

Contains photographs of various Duluth scenes.