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Alden Lake
Alden Lake (aka Big Alden Lake) is a freshwater 180-acre lake with 159 (88%) acres of littoral area and a maximum depth of 29 feet located in northern Minnesota 14 miles northeast of Duluth off St. Louis County Highway #44. Alden does not have a developed public access along the shoreline but can be accessed by canoe through the Cloquet River. The primary fish management species are walleye, with secondary management for largemouth bass and smallmouth bass. History Early Logging Operations By the 1890s, lumbermen, including Frederick Weyerhaeuser, had begun timbering the vast pine forests north of Lake Superior. Initially, the massive pine logs were floated down the entire length of the often frozen and perilous Cloquet River to the City of Cloquet, Minnesota via the Saint Louis River (Lake Superior tributary), Saint Louis River. This means of transporting the timber was obviously less than ideal, and in 1901, M. Joseph Scanlon and Lester Brooks formed the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloquet River
The Cloquet River is a , accessed May 7, 2012 river in Minnesota, United States. It is the main tributary of the Saint Louis River. Name Cloquet ( ) River is known in the Ojibwe language as the ''Gaa-biitootigweyaag-ziibi'' ("River that parallels the Saint Louis River"). On the map of Stephen H. Long's expedition in 1823, it shows that stream as "Rapid River", and it is unnamed on the map by David Thompson in 1826 for the proposed routes of the international boundary. However, on the 1843 Joseph N. Nicollet map, the river is identified by its present name.Upham, Warren"Cloquet"in " Carlton County" section of ''Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia''. Accessed July 27, 2013. Geography The Cloquet River generally flows in a southwesterly direction through Indian Lake, Alden Lake, and Island Lake, before emptying into the Saint Louis River. One can separate the river into two primary stretches, the upper stretch beginning at Cloquet Lake in Lake County as a small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
