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Historic Tower Fire Hall
The fire hall on Tower’s Main Street is actually the second one built in Tower. The brick building that now stands in the center of Tower was built after the city’s first wood-constructed fire hall burned down. Fire had been an ongoing threat in this town comprised of wooden structures crowded together with an inadequate water supply and the original fire hall was no exception.
Tower Train Depot Station
Tower’s first train depot, labeled on early maps as the “Tower Passenger Depot” was later referred to, from 1921-on, as the “Duluth and Iron Range Freight Depot”. This Freight Depot had been constructed sometime between 1884 and 1886 on the western edge of the town along what is now the intersection of Highway 169 and Cedar Street, with spurs running to the Soudan Mine for iron, and to HooDoo Point for timber.
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