Cloquet
| Cloquet | |
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 Located in Minnesota and Carlton Counties
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1884, from 1904 city |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Minnesota |
| County : | Carlton County |
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 43 ′ N , 92 ° 28 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 11,201 (status: 2000) |
| Population density : | 122.7 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 93.2 km 2 (approx. 36 mi 2 ) of which 91.3 km 2 (approx. 35 mi 2 ) is land |
| Postal code : | 55720 |
| Area code : | +1 218 |
| FIPS : | 27-12160 |
| GNIS ID : | 0641345 |
| Website : | www.ci.cloquet.mn.us |
| Mayor : | Bruce Ahlgren |
 RW Lindholm Service Station |
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Cloquet [ kloʊkeɪ ] is a city in Carlton County in Minnesota ( USA ). At the 2000 census it had 11,201 inhabitants.
geography
Cloquet is on the St. Louis River , at the junction of Interstate Highway 35 and Minnesota State Highway 33. Part of the city is within the Fond-du-Lac Indian Reservation and also serves as one of three administrative centers on the reservation.
history
Cloquet, officially established as a village in 1884, became a town with a mayor and councilor in 1904.
In October 1918 a large conflagration, the so-called Cloquet Fire, broke out in northern Minnesota , in which large parts of the city were also destroyed and almost 500 people died.
Cloquet is known in American economic history as the location of the largest consumer cooperative in the country before and after World War II . The Cloquet Cooperative Society , founded in 1910, operated two cooperative stores selling groceries, housewares, shoes, textiles, and furniture. Other cooperative services included a hardware store, coal trade, auto repair shop and gas station.
In 1939 the cooperative owned 35% of the city's business and 18% of Carlton County. In the mid-1950s, the consumer cooperative had 4,262 members and a population of 8500. This was a national record; the total business of all American cooperatives accounted for only 0.5% of the economy. The Finnish co-operatives in the area also had a strong overall influence on the American co-operative movement.
Culture and sights
In Cloquet is the RW Lindholm Service Station , the only petrol station designed by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright . The structure is on the National Register of Historic Places .
Personalities
- Jessica Lange (born 1949), actress
- Derek Plante (* 1971), ice hockey player
- Jamie Langenbrunner (* 1975), ice hockey player
Individual evidence
- ^ Florence C. Parker: The First 125 Years. A history of Distributive and Service Cooperation in the United States, 1829-1954. (Superior WI: CLUSA, 1956)