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Tower was incorporated as a city on March 13, 1889, which makes it the oldest incorporated city in Minnesota's Arrowhead region.

Tower was named after mining financier Charlemagne Tower, one of the developers of the Vermilion Iron Range and the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad.

Tower owes its establishment to the nearby Soudan Mine, where Minnesota's first iron mine was opened in 1884.

The area's first sawmill was established at Tower in 1882, and the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad reached the settlement in 1884.

The 2020 census counted 429 people in Tower.

At the 2010 census, Tower had 500 people living in 265 households.

Tower is home to the Tower Train Museum, and near the museum stands the McKinley Monument, the first monument erected in honor of President William McKinley shortly after his assassination in 1901.

Before the mining era, an Ojibwe settlement stood on nearby Pike Bay of Lake Vermilion, and the North West Company and American Fur Company ran trading posts in the area in the 19th century.

Tower covers about 3.41 square miles, of which roughly 12 percent is water, and State Highways 1, 169 and 135 all serve the community.

Tower's students are served by the St. Louis County school district, which is based in Virginia, Minnesota.