Minnesota Discovery Center Trolley

The trolley's home, the Minnesota Discovery Center, is a 660-acre museum complex that opened in 1977 as the Iron Range Interpretive Center with 34 exhibits, built to celebrate the immigrants — Italians, Finns, and Yugoslavs among them — who built Minnesota's Iron Range mining region. Renamed Ironworld USA in 1984, it took its present name in 2009. Originally a state-run attraction, the facility passed to the non-profit Ironworld Development Corporation, formed in 2003 to manage it, with the transition complete in 2007. The grounds occupy the old Glen Mine property outside Chisholm, abandoned mine shafts and all — shifting ground forced a multimillion-dollar foundation reckoning in 2004 — and today the campus takes in a museum with two floors of exhibits on labor history, geology, mining, and immigration, a renovated 1905 Hill's Finn Boarding House, a research center and library, a park, and the trolley line that circles the old mine workings.