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National Guard looking for survivors in the wreckage of the Sea Wing

National Guard looking for survivors in the wreckage of the Sea Wing after an accident on Lake Pepin, July 13, 1890.

Albert Lea Train Station, a former depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road). The station was built in 1914 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Photograph by Titian Butash, August 8, 2024.

MN90: The Road to Greyhound

You can go practically anywhere on a Greyhound bus nowadays, but when two men from Hibbing started the company in 1914, the only route was from Hibbing to Alice and back again. That is, until a new fleet of sleek, gray buses changed everything

Northland / Mesaba Transportation Company

In 1914, miners often walked two miles from their homes in Alice, Minnesota, to their jobs in the iron mines of Hibbing, even during dangerous winters. Former driller and failing car salesman C. Eric Wickman changed that when he decided to use a Hupmobile to transport miners for a small fee: 15 cents for a one-way trip and 25 cents for a round trip. Wickman’s service became one of the earliest examples of intercity busing in the US and, fifteen years later, led to the establishment of the multimillion-dollar Greyhound Bus Corporation.