Welcome to Lake County Minnesota Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy Trails Family Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This website is available for adoption! We're looking for folks who share our dedication to keeping Genealogy free and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested in joining our group by hosting one of the available county websites, view our Volunteer Page for further information about us. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] DONATE YOUR DATA! We welcome any information you may wish to provide for the free research of others. So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please SEND IT TO US and we'll make sure it gets posted online. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back! County Information Founded on Feb. 20, 1855 as Superior County and immediately had its name changed a couple of weeks later on March 3, 1855 to St. Louis County. A year later on March 1, 1856, St. Louis County became Lake County while Newton County to the west was renamed St. Louis County. Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the area had long been inhabited by Native American groups. The principal Native American groups in the region were the Dakota (Sioux) and Ojibwe (also called Anishinabe or Chippewa). The economy of these groups was based on hunting, fishing and gathering, with wild rice being of particular importance. The first Europeans to explore the area were the French in the late 17th century, who were followed by trappers, fur traders, missionaries, and explorers. Beaver Bay was the first city in Lake County in 1855. (wikipedia) County Seat Two Harbors Cities * Beaver Bay * Silver Bay * Two Harbors Townships * Beaver Bay * Crystal Bay * Fall Lake * Silver Creek * Stony River Unincorporated Communities * Alger * Castle Danger * Cramer * Darby Junction * East Beaver Bay * Finland * Highland (Marcy) * Illgen City * Isabella * Knife River * Larsmont * Lauren * Lax Lake * Little Marais * McNair * Murphy City * Norshore Junction * Sawbill Landing * Section Thirty * Silver Creek * Stewart * Toimi * Waldo * Wales * York Ghost Towns * Avon * Avoy * Beaver * Britton * Buell * Case * Clark * Crystal * Drummond * Eclfo * Emetta * Fernburg Tower * Forest Center * Freedom * Green * Greenwood Junction * Howlett * Jordan * Kent * London * Malmota (Marmata) * Maple * Marble Lake * Moose * Morris * Murfin * Nigadoo * North Branch * Riblet * Scott Junction * Section Thirty Mine * Silver * Splitrock * Stafford * Summit * Swift * Thomas * Waldo Junction * Wanless * Westover * Whyte * Wolf Unorganized * Lake No. 1 * Lake No. 2 Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Jan. 2013: Obits: Anderson, Belland, Harris, Johnson, Moses, Strom, Sullivan, Warner Marriages: Bissill - Baline; Coughlin - McDonald; Dorsey - Moulton; Magnuson - Nordskog; Martin - Glover; Miller - Flynn; Nystrom - Johnson; Strom - Elving; Weatherby - Pepin; Zavitz - Temple Oct. 2012: Obit: Norlen August 2012: Obit: Sullivan July 2012: Bio: Bryan June 2012: Obits: Cable, Herbert, Holm, Latta May 2012: Bio: Barton Apr. 2012: Bio: Dwan Mar. 2012: 1860 Mortality Index Feb. 2012: WW2 Army Honor List Dec 2011: Marriage Announcements for GRIFFIN-CAREY; DORSEY-MOULTON; REIGART-MOULTON; RUST-GRIFFIN; WATERHOUSE-GRIFFIN; SCHREINER-GRIFFIN; Party news for MOULTON; obits for MOULTON Index to 1860 and 1870 Federal Census; Transcription of 1865 State Census SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Upper Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Upper Midwest States of : North Dakota -- South Dakota -- Minnesota -- Wisconsin -- Michigan Adjacent Counties Cook County (east) St. Louis County (west) Ashland County, Wis (southeast - water boundary) Bayfield County, Wis (south - water boundary) Douglas County, Wis (south - water boundary) VISIT THE NATIONAL SITE OF GENEALOGY TRAILS Visit MINNESOTA STATE PAGE Copyright ©Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.