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 .