Talk:Silver Bay, Minnesota

Who cares about rainfall by month? I'm deleting it. If anybody thinks it needs to stay, please put it back up. Honestly.... Scott fakename 03:18, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

"Silver Bay attained widespread publicity in the 1960s when it was discovered that the Reserve Corporation was dumping taconite tailings into Lake Superior." -- The Reserve Corporation had permits from the State of Minnesota to dump the tailings into Lake Superior. Does it make sense to say "discovered" when it was always public knowledge?

Name of town "Silver Bay" announced March 1954
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In March 1954, former Minnesota Governor and United States Senator, Edward J. Thye, announced the name of the new taconite town the Reserve Mining Co. is building on the North Shore, "Silver Bay, Minnesota."

News Tribune, March 16, 1954

U.S. Sen. Edward J. Thye announced the name of the new taconite town the Reserve Mining Co. is building on the North Shore, "Silver Bay, Minnesota." The appointment of a postmaster for the new town is now under consideration.

https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/bygones-silver-bay-got-its-name-70-years-ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Thye Nell Fenwick (talk) 15:00, 2 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Nowhere in this quotation is the actual origin of the name? It's just someone reporting it?  The Savage  Norwegian  18:04, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The captain of the steamship America gave the town its name, who thought rocks there appeared silver.
 * https://lovinlakecounty.com/discover/lake-county-communities/silver-bay
 * Originally known as “Townsite” to natives of the land, before the mining boom turned it into Silver Bay
 * https://www.fox21online.com/2016/11/15/a-company-town-the-story-of-silver-bay/ Nell Fenwick (talk) 13:49, 3 June 2024 (UTC)