Hibbing, Minnesota

In 1887, Hibbing settled in Duluth, where he established a real estate business and began exploring the Vermilion Range.

In 1892, he headed a party of 30 men at Mountain Iron and cut a road through the wilderness to Section 22, 58–20.

== History == The town was founded in 1893 by Frank Hibbing, born in Walsrode, Germany, on December 1, 1856, and christened Franz Dietrich von Ahlen.

He retained close contact with the community that bore his name until dying of appendicitis on July 30, 1897, at age 40.

Hibbing Heights was platted in 1908 and annexed by Alice in 1910, when Alice incorporated as a city.

In 1914, Carl Wickman and Andrew "Bus Andy" Anderson started a bus line between Hibbing and Alice, Minnesota, that eventually became Greyhound Lines, the world's largest bus tra...

In fact, the mines encroached on the village from the east, north, and west, and it was determined that some of the ore body actually went under the town, whose population hit 2...

Between 1919 and 1921, the Village of Hibbing moved immediately south of Alice and then annexed Alice in 1920.

Hibbing High School, a public school serving grades 7–12, was built between 1920 and 1926 in the Tudor Revival style; it received the Bellamy Award in 1968 and is listed on the ...

The last house was moved in 1968.