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Encyclopedia Britannica



CROOKSTON

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 502 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CRE-DAH
CROOKSTON , a city and the county-seat of Polk county, Minnesota,U.S.A., on the Red Lake river in the Red River valley, about 300 m. N.W. of Minneapolis, and about 25 M. E. of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Pop. (189o) 3457; (1900) 5359; (1905, state
census
 ) 6794, 2049 being foreign-born, including 656 from Norway (2
Norwegian
  weeklies are published), 613 from Canada, 292 from
Sweden
 ; (1910 U.S.
census
 ) 7559. Crookston is served by the
Great
  Northern and the Northern Pacific railways. It has a
Carnegie
  library, and the St Vincent and Bethesda hospitals, and is the seat of a Federal Land Office and of a state agricultural high school (with an experimental farm). Dams on the Red Lake river provide a fine water-power, and among the city's manufactures are
lumber
 ,
leather
 , flour, farm implements, wagons and bricks. The city is situated in a fertile farming region, and is a market for
grain
 , potatoes and other agricultural products, and
lumber
 . Crookston was settled about 1872, was incorporated in 1879, received its first city charter in 1883, and adopted a new one in 1906. It was named in honour of William Crooks, an early settler.


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