The name BoomTown pays homage to the area’s rich mining heritage. Also to the hard working men and women, who only a little over a century ago, carved out the small towns with big dreams dotted along Minnesota’s Iron Range.

The Hull-Rust-Mahoning mine established in 1892 in Hibbing (below) is one of the largest open pit iron ore mines in the world, with a 1.5 by 3.5 mile footprint and depths up to 600 feet. It supplied as much as a fourth of all the ore mined in the U. S. during its peak production during WWI and WWII.