With its rocky, rugged Lake Superior shoreline, forests and lakes, it is beautiful scenery, nature and wilderness which dominate Cook county.  To illustrate:  While driving the nice, modern highway 61, which runs along Lake Superior to the Grand Portage Reservation, the cars were forced to a halt by a mother bear and her two cubs.  She paid no attention whatsoever to the scant trappings of modern civilization as she crossed the highway with her family. ;-)

• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council - Grand Portage

   Grand Portage Reservation
         83 Stevens Road - Grand Portage, MN 55605  Phone: (218) 475-2277.
• U.S. Census Bureau for Cook County Profiles and Population Summaries.
• Interactive MAP of Cook County, Minnesota.
• USGS: Maps of Cook County, Minnesota features - including cemeteries, churches, populated places and more.  To retrieve locations of features, simply select Minnesota from the drop-down menu, then enter the county name, and the feature you wish to search, then click on send query.  Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature.  This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.
• The Superior National Forest - (Cook, Lake County and western St. Louis County access).
• home to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
• Grand Portage State Forest
• Pat Bayle State Forest
• GORP: Grand Portage National Monument.
• Minnesota's Lake Superior North Shore
• Minnesota Lake Superior History on the Minnesota Historical Society web site
• Settlement & Fishing on Lake Superior (1854-1930)
• North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum.
• Grand Marais Chamber of Commerce.
• Cultural/Historical page.
• Lutsen-Tofte Tourism Association - in Tofte
• Map of the area.
• Cook County Historical Society  E-mail:  patze@boreal.org
• Cook County News-Herald
• Grand Marais Public Library
  
    104 2nd Avenue West - Grand Marais, MN 55604  Phone: (218) 387-1140.
• Cook County Recorder
  
    411 West 2nd Street - Grand Marais, MN 55604   Phone: (218) 387-3660.
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• State of Minnesota - North Star, Minnesota State Government Online.
• Department of Health
• How to order a birth or death certificate from the Minnesota Department of Health.
Contact the Minnesota Department of Health for certified Birth records from 1900 and certified Death records from 1908.  Certificates may be ordered by mail, phone, fax, and in person at the office.  There is a fee for obtaining birth or death certificates.
Minnesota Department of Health
  Attention: Vital Records
  717 Delaware Street Southeast
  P.O. Box 9441
  Minneapolis, MN  55440-9441
  Phone: 612-676-5120 (For birth records, press 4; For death records, press 5)
Records prior to these years, may be requested from the County  Registrar/Recorder in the county where the event occurred.
• Instructions on obtaining certificates of marriage or divorce decrees and index search.
• MN Dept. of Health list of County Registrars/Recorders: choose county.



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Cook County Churches include:

Maple Hill Church - Latitude:  474742N;  Longitude: 0901957W
     On CR 54, north of the Hwys. 12 & 8 intersection, north of Grand Marais, MN   (see map)


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Cook County Cemeteries include:

Lutsen Cemetery - Latitude:  473827N;  Longitude: 0904229W
     Near Hwy. 61, at Lutsen, MN   (see map)

Pagan Cemetery - Latitude: 475814N; Longitude: 0894136W
     Near Hwy. 61, at Grand Portage, MN   (see map)

Poplar Grove Cemetery - Latitude:  474447N;  Longitude:  0902215W
     Near Hwy. 61, at Grand Marais, MN   (see map)

School and Library Atlas of the World.  Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor).  Sycamore, Illinois:  School and Library Publishing Company.  1982.
 
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