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Marble, a city in Greenway Township, sections 16-20, was incorporated as a village on April 20, 1909. The first homestead claim was in 1888 by Albert F. Gross of Duluth, which became the Gross-Marble Mining Company property; the village was enlarged in 1908 by the Oliver Mining Company, at which time 20 of its 80 acres were reserved for a public park. The post office began in 1908.

Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society

FROM THE MIDST OF THE FOREST

Marble (1,382 alt., 792 pop.) is one of the mining villages in the Canisteo District on the western Mesabi Range.

Marble came into existence with the discovery of iron-ore deposits beneath dense forests covering the area. The town site embraced 80 acres, with 20 acres adjoining reserved for a public park, when the Oliver Iron Mining Company began the building of the village following the completion of Coleraine.

The station of the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railroad, now the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range, though only a frame building, was for some time the most imposing structure.

In 1909, Marble was incorporated as a village, and in 1911 had a population of 900.

Mining is the only industry. The Oliver Iron Mining Company has given up its lease on the Hill Mine and today operates no mines within the village. Since the abandonment of the Hill, the largest local mine is the Hill-Annex, to which Calumet also owes its being and support. Opened in 1914, it has shipped 22,879,647 tons of iron ore. The Hill-Trumbull Mine (White City Rd., 0.5 mile north), an open pit started in 1919, includes the former Hill Mine. Operated by the Mesaba-Cliffs Mining Company, it has produced 12,900,700 tons of ore. It has a washing plant (Sand Lake Rd., 1.5 miles southeast). The Oliver Iron Mining Company controls vast reserves in Marble.

The Olcott School, a $45,000 structure (Alice Ave. bet. Bawden and Kate Sts.), was built in 1911. The streets, once only mud trails, are now paved or surfaced, and the main one is as wide as a boulevard. The village has modern public utilities.
Marble is within easy driving distance of Scenic State Park.

From the WPA Guide to the Minnesota Arrowhead Company
©1941 by the Minnesota Arrowhead Association

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Grace English Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod)	200 Ethel Street Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-7407
St. Mary's Catholic Church	500 Alice Avenue Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-7368
Trout Lake Apostolic Lutheran Church	Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-7843

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B & W Works	700 Alice Avenue Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-0391
Breen Appliance Sales & Service	29493 Twin Lakes Drive Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-7722
Colonial Castings Inc.	217 Alice Avenue Marble, MN 55764	(218) 245-1368
Edward Eck Designs	200 Harriet Street Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-0319
Greene Concrete Construction	140 Eckman Avenue Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-7379
Hussman Finishing	200 Alice Avenue Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-0322
Iron Oakes Fencing	Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-7219
Marble Heating	Marble, MN 55764	N/A
Marble Post Office	109 Alice Street Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-7986
Marble Public Library	PO Box 409 Marble, MN 55764-0409	(218) 247-7676
Marble Greenway Senior Citizens Home	Main Street Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-7206
Mesaba Oil & Propane	305 Alice Avenue Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-7203
Ron's Korner Market	Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-7351
Scenic Drywall Services	600 Alice Avenue Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-0015
Terion	Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-7501
Tracy's on Main Bar & Grill	209 Alice Avenue Marble, MN 55764	(218) 247-7214

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