Trails and memorials connect Crosby, Minnesota visitors to worst mine tragedy in state history

Trails and memorials connect Crosby, Minnesota visitors to worst mine tragedy in state history

CROSBY — A quiet park nestled in the woods by a lake provides a place to reflect, walk and experience history. Names on the boardwalks link the present to the past. The names of 41 miners who lost their lives in 1924 when the underground iron ore mine flooded within minutes and the seven who made it to the surface are there with each step on the 450-foot boardwalk bridge. For years, while the story was part of the fabric of the area, the land an…