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TWO HARBORS, Minn.– Today marks the 50th anniversary of the well-known Great Lakes tragedy.

During a fierce storm, the Edmund Fitzgerald went down, resulting in the loss of its 29-man crew.

And for forty years, the Split Rock Lighthouse has acknowledged the great loss.

“We’ve never had to cap the event before, but we knew, because of the 50th anniversary and it being the 40th of actually doing the ceremony, that we were going to have a lot of interest. And last year, we had 1700 people here on the site for the event, and we figured we figured we could handle that,” said Hayes Scriven, Split Rock Lighthouse site manager.

The light house anticipated thousands to show up for this ceremony.

For some of the attendees, it was just a qu

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