Assins was settled in 1843 with a Catholic mission. It was a station stop on the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic railroad about three miles north of Baraga.
2014. This is the end of the line of the Canadian National branch line to L'Anse and Baraga, serving a few small industrial facilities just north of Baraga.
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