Industry History | 3M — The Lawyer's Office at 201 Waterfront Drive
· 1902-6
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Industry History | 3M — The Lawyer's Office at 201 Waterfront Drive
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People treat 3M as a Maplewood campus that arrived already named Scotch Tape and Post-it.
The papers that made the company were signed here, in John Dwan's law office at what is now 201 Waterfront Drive in Two Harbors, Minnesota, on 13 June 1902.
Five local men put up a thousand dollars each: Dwan, the town attorney; Dr. J. Danley Budd; meat-market owner Hermon W. Cable; and Duluth and Iron Range Railroad men William A. McGonagle and Henry S. Bryan. They incorporated Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing to mine what they thought was corundum on the north shore of Lake Superior. The mineral was anorthosite. It was useless as an abrasive. The first plant at Crystal Bay nearly finished them.
Dwan leased part of this wooden office as the official boardroom. The building had been put up in 1898 on Poplar Street and was later moved a block to this lot. The board kept meeting here until 1916, even after Lucius Pond Ordway moved manufacturing to Duluth and then to Saint Paul.
The Lake County Historical Society bought the building in 1991. It is now the 3M Birthplace Museum. The house is still standing on the waterfront. It is not Maplewood. It is the first address the corporation wrote down.
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