Larsmont is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Lake County,

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, United States, on the North Shore of

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. It is five miles southwest of Two Harbors on the North Shore Scenic Drive ( County 61). Larsmont is within Lake No. 2 Unorganized Territory of Lake County.

History

Larsmont was first settled in 1888 at Milepost 22 on the

Duluth and Iron Range Railroad The Duluth and Iron Range Railroad Railway Equipment and Publication CompanyThe Official Railway Equipment Register June 1917, p. 582 was founded in 1874. In 1884, it ran the first main line train between Two Harbors and Soudan, Minnesota, a tot ...

. It was founded by

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immigrants from

Larsmo Larsmo (, ) is a municipality in Finland, located on the west coast of the country. Larsmo is situated in Ostrobothnia, along the Gulf of Bothnia. The population of Larsmo is approximately , while the sub-region has a population of approximat ...

, Ostrobothnia. They originally requested to name the town Larsmo, but officials did not approve and instead chose the name Larsmont. Later residents came from Munsala in

Nykarleby Nykarleby (; , ) is a town in Finland, located on the west coast of the country. The town is situated in Ostrobothnia (administrative region), Ostrobothnia, along the Gulf of Bothnia. The population is approximately , while the Jakobstad sub-re ...

, Finland. On October 12, 1918, part of the great 1918 Cloquet Fire burned down the hillside as far as the railroad tracks. People who lived on the hillside took refuge in homes along the lakeshore. Six cars of Home Guards came from Two Harbors to help fight the fire. A post office was established in 1916. In 1963, Larsmont was assigned ZIP code 55610. The ZIP code was retired on November 1, 1978, and the post office closed.Norgard, Irene Hill, ''Larsmont Yesterday,'' 1980, p13 Larsmont is now covered by ZIP code 55616, based in Two Harbors.

References

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