Cloquet, Minnesota

Carlton County

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Cloquet [ kloʊkeɪ ] is a city in Carlton County, Minnesota (USA). In the 2000 census, it had 11,201 inhabitants.

Geography

Cloquet is located on the St. Louis River, at the intersection of Interstate highways 35 and Minnesota State Highway 33 A portion of the city lies within the Fond-du -Lac Indian Reservation and also serves as one of three administrative centers of the reserve.

History

Cloquet, officially founded in 1884 as a village in 1904 to a city with a mayor and city council.

In October 1918, it was in northern Minnesota to a large wildfire, called the Cloquet Fire, in which large parts of the city were destroyed and there were nearly 500 deaths.

In American economic history Cloquet is known as the site of the before and after the Second World War 's largest consumer co-operative in the country. The Cloquet Cooperative Society, founded in 1910, operated two cooperative stores, groceries, household goods, shoes, textiles and furniture sold. Other Cooperative Services included a hardware store, a coal trading, an auto repair shop and a petrol station.

In 1939 the cooperative accounts for 35% of the business of the city and 18% of the Carlton County. Mid-1950s had the consumer cooperative members in 4262 8500 inhabitants. This was a national record, the total business of all American cooperatives made ​​only 0.5 % of the economy. The Finnish Cooperatives in the area also had a total powerful influence on the American cooperative movement.

Culture and sights

In Cloquet, the RW Lindholm Service Station, the only gas station that was designed by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright is. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.