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The point cabin near Knife Lake was one of the cabins at the Isle of Pines resort that Dorothy Molter operated and used until the time of her death in 1986. It was taken apart piece by piece and reconstructed at the site of the Dorothy Molter Museum in Ely, Minn.
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