Tower’s post office opened in 1883, and 26% of its homes were built before 1940
Its Register listings are the Tower Fire Hall and the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad Company Passenger Station.
How Tower began
When was Tower founded?
The Tower post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1889. Another post office, Lakeview (1889), opened inside today’s city and later closed.
2 historic places in Tower
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds
Tower’s post office has been open since 1883. Another post office, Lakeview, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Tower’s history
What year was Tower founded?
The Tower post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1889.
What is on the National Register in Tower?
Two places: the Tower Fire Hall (listed 1980) and the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad Company Passenger Station (2013).
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Where this page comes from
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From the National Register of Historic Places (2), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.