On Split Rock Lighthouse honors the tragic sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, remembering all 29 crew members lost with a special ceremony and a tolling bell.

More than 2,000 people turned out Monday on the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. Split Rock Lighthouse and the Minnesota Historical Society commemorated the tragedy, which ...

TWO HARBORS — Split Rock Lighthouse will shine its beacon Wednesday night in honor of the late Gordon Lightfoot. It's a rare honor: The beacon is seldom lit, with an annual exception being Nov. 10 to ...

Split Rock Lighthouse wasn't a tourist destination for Beulah Covell-Myers - it was home for much of her childhood. The daughter of Franklin Covell, one of only two head Split Rock lighthouse keepers, ...

TWO HARBORS, Minn. — Perched on a 130-foot cliff, Split Rock Lighthouse first began guiding ships through the turbulent waters of Lake Superior all the way back in 1910. Using its guiding light - a ...

An unprecedented sellout crowd gathered to pay respects Monday, as the lighthouse beacon was lit with crewmen's family members in attendance.

Split Rock Lighthouse was spun from a dark day. “Split Rock was born out of a – really, actually a horrific storm in 1905,” Keeper Hayes Scriven said. “It was a really bad November gale, and it caught ...

An iconic site on the Lake Superior shoreline will be briefly closed to tourists this spring for repair and restoration. Construction at Split Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors will start May 5, the ...

DULUTH, Minn. — The 110-year-old Split Rock Lighthouse on Lake Superior’s North Shore is usually only lit once per year to mark the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in November. But ...

As Split Rock Lighthouse's first head keeper from 1910 to 1928, Orren "Pete" Young cautioned countless sailors from his cliff-top perch overlooking Lake Superior, 50 miles up the shore from Duluth.