Editing Tower, Minnesota (section)

==History==
The city was incorporated March 13, 1889,<ref>Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia. Minnesota Historical Society website. {{cite web |url=http://mnplaces.mnhs.org/upham/index.cfm |title=Minnesota Place Names - Home Page |access-date=2007-06-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070620200046/http://mnplaces.mnhs.org/upham/index.cfm |archive-date=2007-06-20 }}</ref> which makes it the oldest city in the [[Iron Range|Arrowhead region]]. It owes its establishment to the [[Soudan Underground Mine State Park|Soudan Mine]], and was named after mining financier [[Charlemagne Tower]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n507 490]}}</ref> Tower is home to the [[Tower Train Museum]]; near the museum is McKinley Monument, the first erected in honor of former U.S. president [[William McKinley]] shortly after his assassination in 1901.  President McKinley was in office from 1897 to 1901.

Tower set the [[U.S. state temperature extremes|Minnesota record for coldest temperature]] on February 2, 1996, when the temperature dropped to -60&nbsp;°F (-51&nbsp;°C).  This was the lowest temperature ever recorded in the United States east of the Great Plains.  Tower and the Embarrass Valley to the south are the coldest inhabited locations in the Lower 48 states, based on average winter temperatures.