In the early years Two Harbors consisted of two separate communities called Agate Bay and Burlington.

The village of Agate Bay was platted in 1885 but was not incorporated until 1888 ; Two Harbors post office served the Agate Bay.

It borders Lake Superior, which contributes the two natural harbors for which it is named, Burlington Bay and Agate Bay.

By 1883 the Minnesota Iron Company had purchased all but four acres of Thomas Sextons land around Agate Bay.

By 1885 the Minnesota Iron Company convinced Thomas Sexton to sell his remaining four acres along Agate Bay.

Although different locations were considered for the railroad terminus and shipping port, Agate Bay was chosen because it was closer to the iron ore site and provided a clay bottom bay, while most others were rocky.

On that day, the first iron ore cars left Agate Bay early in the morning, along with a caboose for President Tower to ride in on the return trip.

It extends from Liberty Bay and Agate Pass in the north to Sinclair Inlet and Rich Passage in the south.

Tower also acquired the rights to the Duluth Iron & Railway Co., which entitled him to 10 square miles ( 26 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) of land for every mile ( 1. 6 km ) of rail built between Duluth and Agate Bay ( Two Harbors ), 25 miles ( 40 km ) northeast along the shore.

Speculators bought up land at Agate Bay ; the rail line was not completed until 1887, so all travel to Agate Bay was originally by steamboat.

* Two Last Poems for flute solo and orchestra ( 1958 Agate Beach )

Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.

In the most serious case they ruled that Bid TV had overestimated the guide price of £ 1700 for " Black Agate Globes "; " Bid-Up could only provide proof of one supplier that may have sold the globe for £ 1700.

Bishop Pelagius relates that the Agate Box, a coffer made by the disciples of the Apostles and containing the most precious relics of the Holy City, was taken from Jerusalem to Africa, and after residing in several locations was finally placed at Oviedo by Alfonso II.

For example most of the blue runs are named after metals / jewels ( e. g. Serpentine, Turquoise, Dolomie, Cristal, Tourmaline, Emeraude ), nearly all the reds are diabollically named ( e. g. Faust, Mephisto, Belzebuth, Lucifer ) and most black runs after stars ( e. g. Diamant Noir, Agate, Styx ).

" Later, Agate was bested by Lilian Braithwaite, who responded to his assertion that she was " the second most beautiful woman in London " by replying, " I shall long cherish that, coming from our second-best theatre critic.

" Agate had a series of secretaries, of whom Alan Dent ( Jock ), who served for fourteen years, was later the most prominent.

They were able to retain some land, the Port Madison Indian Reservation, near their winter village site on Agate Pass.

Olivier's 1937 performance at the Old Vic Theatre was popular with audiences but not with critics, with James Agate writing in a famous review in The Sunday Times, " Mr. Olivier does not speak poetry badly.

The last of the great actor-managers, Donald Wolfit, played Lear on a Stonehenge-like set in 1944 and was praised by James Agate as " the greatest piece of Shakespearean acting since I have been privileged to write for the Sunday Times ".

Osbert Sitwell, in a letter to James Agate, notes that Bennett was not, despite current views, " the typical businessman, with his mean and narrow outlook.

Ferry service was discontinued in Fall of 1951 after the Agate Pass Bridge opened and the Washington State Ferries took over ferry service on Puget Sound.

In his early days at the Old Vic, Richardson was the target of the sometimes waspish reviews of leading critic, James Agate, who thought that Richardson could not play villains ; Agate said of Richardson's Iago, " he could not hurt a fly, which was very good Richardson, but indifferent Shakespeare ".

The drive system was replaced by Agate Technology's DN-Boy system in October 2002.

During the early 20th century, iron ore slag was also ground to a powder and used to make ' Agate Glass ', also known as ' Slag Glass '.

Ernest Bloch was a composer who lived in Agate Beach, and has a memorial located in Newport.

Alfred Thomas Agate, engraver and illustrator, was the designated portrait and botanical artist of the expedition.

On different occasions, Charlie Brown was shown teaching Rerun how to deliver newspapers, and winning back Rerun's marbles from the bully, Joe Agate.

The next US company to enter the glass marble market was Akro Agate.

Originally the Agate Springs Ranch, a working cattle ranch, was owned by Capt.

Putting these details together, scholars draw the conclusion that it must have been similar to the pale colour of natural gold ( as opposed to the colour known as gold ); Saadia Gaon, and other medieval rabbinical commentators, argued that the gem itself was an Agate ( presumably of a golden colour ).

Taking the majority view of scholars in regard to the identity of the gems, and including the implication from the Book of Revelation that the Onyx at the end of the fourth row was a Sardonyx, there are four colours-red, green, yellow, and blue-each represented by a clear gem ( red-Carbuncle, green-Heliodor, yellow-Chrysolite, blue-Amethyst ), an opaque gem ( red-Carnelian / red Jasper, green-green Jasper, yellow-yellow Jasper / yellow Serpentine, blue-Lapis Lazuli ), and a striped gem ( red-Sardonyx, green-Malachite, yellow-pale golden Agate, blue-sky-blue Agate ).

" Sitwell cited a letter from Bennett to a friend of Agate, who remains anonymous, in Ego 5:

At Agate Cove on the south end of the park, waves crashing against the basalt rocks provide spectacular spouts from blow holes.

In those early days ( 1919 ), water for the Island came from the famous " Wooden Water Tower " built on Agate St. ( removed in 1929 ).

* Exhibit: The Alfred Agate Collection: The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 from the Navy Art Gallery

* Exhibit: The Alfred Agate Collection: The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 from the Navy Art Gallery

* Exhibit: The Alfred Agate Collection: The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 from the Navy Art Gallery

* Exhibit: The Alfred Agate Collection: The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 from the Navy Art Gallery

The Bloch Memorial has been moved from near his house in Agate Beach to a more prominent location at the Newport Performing Arts Center in Newport, Oregon.

In order to gratify her passion for antique and Neoclassical art, Catherine employed the Scottish architect Charles Cameron who not only refurbished the interior of one wing in the Neo-Palladian style then in vogue, but also constructed the personal apartments of the Empress, a rather modest Greek Revival structure known as the Agate Rooms and situated to the left from the grand palace.

* Exhibit: The Alfred Agate Collection: The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 from the Navy Art Gallery

For example, metal type sets that were called Agate are known to have ranged from 5 points up to 5. 8 points.

A man from the Nukufetau atoll, Ellice Islands ( now Tuvalu ) drawn by Alfred Thomas Agate in 1841.

The Agate was launched from the Hammaguir and Ile de Levant test sites, in order to test instrument capsules and recovery systems.

As second in command at the Guardian, Monkhouse helped to launch the career of James Agate by publishing his open letters from France during the first World War.

Dordi Agate Nordby, ( born 8 April 1964 in Bærum, Norway ), is a Norwegian right-handed curler from Snarøya.

In spite of a massive intrusion of petroleum hydrocarbon pollutants from the Ixtoc I event into the study region of the South Texas Outer Continental Shelf during 1979-1980, no definitive damage can be associated with this or other known spillage events ( e. g., Burmah Agate ) on either the epibenthic commercial shrimp population ( based on chemical evidence ) or the benthic infaunal community.

* Exhibit: The Alfred Agate Collection: The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 from the Navy Art Gallery

Alistair Cooke was another admirer of Agate, and devoted one of his " Letters from America " to the " Supreme Diarist.