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.
We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online 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 and then contact Kim.
[A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic
webpage is required.]
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 are looking for biographies, birth and death
records, obituaries, newspaper stories, family history - the items YOU used to put together your family trees.
The county seat is Duluth. It is the largest county in Minnesota, and the largest
in the United States east of the Mississippi River.
Major industries include pulpwood production and tourism. At one time, taconite mining was a major part of the
economy. Parts of the Bois Forte and Fond du Lac Indian reservations are in the county.
St. Louis County was founded on February 20, 1855 as Doty County and had its name changed to Newton County on March
3, 1855. On March 1, 1856, St. Louis County to the east became Lake County while Newton County was renamed St.
Louis County. Originally Doty County and Newton County consisted of the area east and south of the St. Louis River.
The area east of Vermilion River and north of St. Louis River was part of Superior County (which then became St.
Louis County, and then Lake County). Upon establishment of this St. Louis County, these two areas were merged,
then expanded westward by incorporating parts of Itasca County, which then also included most of Carlton County.
On May 23, 1857 St. Louis County took its current shape when Carlton County was formed from St. Louis and Pine
Counties.
