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- Elcor is a ghost town, or more properly, an extinct town, in the U.S. state of Minnesota that was inhabited between 1897 and 1956. It was built on the Mesabi Iron Range near the city of Gilbert in St. Louis County. Elcor was its own unincorporated community before it was abandoned and was never a neighborhood proper of the city of Gilbert. Not rating a figure in the national census, the people of Elcor were only generally considered to be citizens of Gilbert. The area where Elcor was located was annexed by Gilbert when its existing city boundaries were expanded after 1969. In November 1890, the seven Merritt brothers discovered ore near Mountain Iron, triggering an unparalleled iron rush to the Mesabi Range. The Elba mine was opened in 1897, and the town was platted under the direction of Don H. Bacon, president of the Minnesota Iron Company. A second nearby mine, the Corsica, was opened in 1901. The community was first called "Elba" after the name of the first underground mine (the name "Elcor" was formed later by combining the first syllables of each mine's name). The Elba and Corsica mines were both leased by Pickands Mather and Company after the formation of the United States Steel Corporation. An influx of people of many ethnicities and many nations followed, and Elcor became a microcosm of U.S. immigration, mirroring the cultural assimilation of the time. At its peak around 1920, Elcor had two churches, a post office, a general store, a primary school, a railroad station, and its own law enforcement, and housed a population of nearly 1,000. Elcor was a mining location, built by the mining company to house the workers for its mines. People were allowed to own their homes, but the land on which the houses stood belonged to the mining company. After the Corsica mine closed in 1954, Pickands Mather and Company ordered the residents to vacate the property so that it could reclaim the land; by 1956, Elcor was completely abandoned. The desolate property changed hands often through acquisitions, mergers, and bankruptcies. In 1993, the Inland Steel Company began stockpiling the overburden from what is now the Minorca Mine over Elcor's former location. (en)
- Elcor è un comune fantasma degli Stati Uniti d'America, situato nello stato del Minnesota, nella contea di St. Louis e abitato fra il 1897 e il 1956. Costruita sulla catena del , fu un'area non incorporata fino al 1969, quando i confini della vicina Gilbert furono estesi fino a includere l'area dove sorgeva. Tuttavia, prima che Elcor rimanesse disabitata, non figurando nei registri censuari nazionali, i suoi abitanti erano comunque considerati cittadini di Gilbert. Nel novembre del 1890, i sette fratelli Merritt scoprirono giacimenti minerari nei pressi di Iron Mountain, scatenando una "corsa al ferro" senza precedenti nell'area del Mesabi. Fu aperta la miniera di Elba nel 1897 (seguita dalla miniera di Corsica nel 1901), e sotto la direzione di Don H. Bacon, presidente della , fu disegnata la mappa catastale del paese. Entrambe le miniere furono date in locazione dalla a seguito della formazione della Corporazione Americana dell'Acciaio. Con l'afflusso di persone di diversa etnia e nazionalità, Elcor, località mineraria costruita appositamente dalla compagnia per ospitare i propri minatori, divenne in breve una rappresentazione dell'immigrazione verso gli Stati Uniti e della conseguente assimilazione culturale. Al culmine della sua attività, intorno al 1920, Elcor aveva due chiese, un ufficio postale, un emporio, una scuola primaria, una stazione ferroviaria e forze dell'ordine proprie, per una popolazione che toccava i 1 000 abitanti. A questi era possibile possedere la propria casa, ma non il terreno su cui sorgeva, di proprietà della compagnia. Dopo la chiusura della miniera di Corsica nel 1954, la Pickands Mather and Company ordinò ai residenti di sgomberare la proprietà affinché si potesse riqualificare il territorio; per il 1956, Elcor fu del tutto abbandonata. Dopo molti passaggi di proprietà, per acquisizione, fusione e bancarotta, nel 1993 l' diede inizio allo smantellamento dell'overburden da Elcor per costituire l'attuale miniera di Minorca. (it)
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- Elcor is a ghost town, or more properly, an extinct town, in the U.S. state of Minnesota that was inhabited between 1897 and 1956. It was built on the Mesabi Iron Range near the city of Gilbert in St. Louis County. Elcor was its own unincorporated community before it was abandoned and was never a neighborhood proper of the city of Gilbert. Not rating a figure in the national census, the people of Elcor were only generally considered to be citizens of Gilbert. The area where Elcor was located was annexed by Gilbert when its existing city boundaries were expanded after 1969. (en)
- Elcor è un comune fantasma degli Stati Uniti d'America, situato nello stato del Minnesota, nella contea di St. Louis e abitato fra il 1897 e il 1956. Costruita sulla catena del , fu un'area non incorporata fino al 1969, quando i confini della vicina Gilbert furono estesi fino a includere l'area dove sorgeva. Tuttavia, prima che Elcor rimanesse disabitata, non figurando nei registri censuari nazionali, i suoi abitanti erano comunque considerati cittadini di Gilbert. (it)
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