Barnum, Minnesota

The small city of Barnum sits in Carlton County, Minnesota, and it is a railroad town. When the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad pushed through this stretch of northern Minnesota around eighteen seventy, linking the Twin Cities to Duluth, settlers followed the tracks. The railroad was later reorganized as the St.

Paul and Duluth. Today Barnum is home to the Carlton County Fair, which was first held in eighteen ninety. Population hovers around six hundred.