CLOQUET
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V06,
Page 556
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
CLOQUET
, a city of Carlton county, Minnesota, U.S.A., on the St See also: - LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
, 28 M
.
W. by S. of Duluth
.
Pop
.
(1890) 2530; (1900) 3072; (1905, state census) 6117, of whom 2755 wereforeign- born (716 Swedes, 689 Finns, 685 Canadians, 334 Norwegians); (1910) 7031
.
Cloquet is served by the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, the Duluth & North-Eastern, and (for freight only) the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railways
.
The river furnishes good water- power, and the city has various manufactures, including lumber, paper, wood pulp, match blocks and boxes
.
The first See also: - MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
was built in 1878, and the village was named from the French word claquet ( sound of the mill)
.
Cloquet was incorporated as a village in 1883 and was chartered as a city in 1903
.
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