The Superior Public Library has several murals on their walls telling the history of Superior and Douglas County. The murals were painted by Carl Gawboy, a member of the Bois Forte Band of the Minnesota Ojibwe.

The different paintings first start with the creation of the Earth legend from an Algonquin/Ojibwe perspective. The final mural depicts the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald.

Kelly Wiisanen with the Superior Public Library said the murals were commissioned back in 1992, and Gawboy finished painting the final mural in 2002.

“There’s a self-guided audio tour that people can take when they come in here,” Wiisanen said. “They just need to pick up a pamphlet at the front desk and there are QR codes that they can scan with their smartphones to hear the history. Another way that they can do it, if they don’t have a smartphone, they can do a self-guided tour with a booklet that we have up front.”

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