Snow depth in winter may prevent access to cache.
The parking coords will take you to the Tower City Park parking area. While you are here you might want to check out the historical items in the park:
1. THE MCKINLEY MONUMENT- built 2 weeks after Pres. McKinley died from assassination in 1901. It is the tall gray obelisk. The Sup. of the Soudan Mine at the time was a close friend of Pres. McKinley. There is more to read on the monument.
2. The TOWER-SOUDAN DEPOT MUSEUM IS LOCATED IN THE OLD TRAIN DEPOT. SUMMER HOURS M-S 9-5 and Sun 10-4.
3. THE ORE CRUSHER – Located by the flags (representing the ethnic groups who settled in the area)- The plaque will explain the ore crusher and tell you more about Tower, which became a city in 1889.
4. THE HOMESTEAD CABIN - which belonged to William Oates Jeffery from Cornwall, England in the early days of the city. May be open to go inside.
5.The 3-storied gray poured concrete building you see across the bridge was the IRON RANGE BREWERY until it closed in 1929. The building was used to cool the beer. During the summer ice was packed on the top of the building to maintain cooling during the summer.
6.My friend's father was the engineer on this train. When he would drive his car past a friend's house he would always honk the pattern of the train whistle as a hello. After he died (in a car accident), his friends continued honking his train signal.
