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The beautiful environs of Bennett Park in Hibbing have been enjoyed by generations. The history of the park and its changes through the years adds to an appreciation for it today.
So many people have wonderful memories and stories about the park. Whether it was a certain baseball game, a family reunion, a musical play performed or a band concert enjoyed, Bennett Park has been the scene of many a memorable event.
People may not know it, but at Bennett Park there once was a zoo. Hibbing schoolteachers who share Hibbingâs history with their students often say childrenâs eyes light up at stories about the zoo. When the classes enjoy an end-of-the-year picnic in Bennett Park, students will again ask about the zoo.
Of the many white pioneers who came striding into the Mesabi in the late 1800s, not many left as interesting a written and photographic record as Edmund J. Longyear.
The Longyearbyen coal-power plant. (Thomas Nilsen/The Independent Barents Observer)
Still unclear which replacement will be chosen for heat- and electricity production, but the Government assures it will be a more climate friendly solution.
Longyearbyen Heat and Power Plant is the only energy producer in Norway running on coal. Together with the coal power plant in the Russian settlement Barentsburg on Svalbard, it is also the world’s northernmost.
To be presented in the state budget for 2022, the Government is now working on a new energy plan for Longyearbyen.
“A great deal of work is done in assessing possible energy solutions in recent years. This autumn, we have taken important steps forward trying to find out how we can establish a new solution for Longyearbyen,” says Minister of Petroleum and Energy Tina Bru.
Special to the Journal
Exploration diamond drilling rigs belonging to the E.J. Longyear Company are shown. (Photo courtesy of the Marquette Regional History Center)
MARQUETTE Edmund J. Longyear was a pioneer in the opening of the Mesabi Iron Range in Minnesota who enhanced its development by introducing the diamond drill in 1890.
His company E.J. Longyear was an international mineral exploration and drilling company in the early 20th century. The company exists today as Boart Longyear, which concluded a mineral exploration contract at the Eagle Mine near Big Bay this past summer.
Edmund credits much of his success and the establishment of his company to the guidance he received from his older cousin John Munro Longyear, (whom Edmund called Munro) and his experiences in the Upper Peninsula from 1886 to 1890.