Two Harbors is a city in and the county seat of Lake County, Minnesota, United States, along the shore of Lake Superior. The population was 3,633 at the 2020 census. Minnesota State Highway 61 serves as a main route in Two Harbors. Gooseberry Falls State Park is 13 miles (21 km) to the northeast and the city is house to a cargo shipping harbor for mined iron ore.

In the upfront years Two Harbors consisted of two sever communities, Agate Bay and Burlington. The village of Burlington along Burlington Bay was platted in 1856, first incorporated on May 23, 1857; it had a proclaim office that operated from 1856 until 1862. The first residence constructed in Agate Bay was owned by Thomas Sexton (1854); it was a 14-by-16-foot shack. Early settlers lived in primitive conditions, which was common for both the Place and time. Their homes were made of logs and had dirt floors. Diets often consisted of homegrown vegetables and animals caught in the area (at that time there were many dense forests, so deer meat was not an abundant food source). The village of Agate Bay was created like the construction camp as work upon the further railroad began in 1883. The village of Two Harbors was platted in 1885 but not incorporated until 1888. Early transportation to the village was by boats below contract with the supplementary Duluth and Iron Range Railroad, and by horse. It took one day to gain from Duluth to Two Harbors. By 1886 the D&IR completed the Lake Division connecting Duluth and Two Harbors past passenger help that outstretched to Ely. Thirty-five logging camps were set up within the vicinity, one of them upon Fourth Avenue. On February 26, 1907, the village reincorporated as the City of Two Harbors.

The town’s chronicles is included in the Lake County Historical Depot Museum.

By 1883 the Minnesota Iron Company had purchased everything but four acres of Thomas Sexton’s land nearly Agate Bay. Sexton leased his long-lasting four acres to merchants seeking to capitalize on the 600-man workforce arriving to construct the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad. He divided his four acres into 32 lots. As in the space of any frontier town of the daylight it was a largely male population. The infamous four-acre plot earned the nickname “Whiskey Row”, and was said to exist for the sole try of “relieving a man from his pay”.