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Aitkin, Minnesota
Aitkin ( ) is a city in Aitkin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,165 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Aitkin County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕
==History==
Aitkin was founded in 1870 when the Northern Pacific Railroad was extended to that point. The city and county were named for William Alexander Aitken, a partner of the American Fur Company and chief factor of the company's regional operations in the early 19th century.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Profile for Aitkin, Minnesota, MN )〕 Many industries had attracted people to the town. In the late 19th and early 20th century, a massive wave of immigration, most likely from present day Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavian countries, had resided into the Aitkin area to pursue the logging and riverboat industries. After the Great Depression and World War II, the logging industry has changed the town into a farming community, consisting mostly of cattle and poultry, which continued until the late 1970s to early 1980s. A creamery 〔Hakes, Boyd. Mutual Creamary History, Aitkin, MN. Aitkin Historical Society. circa 1980. Retrieved July 31, 2013. http://www.aitkincohs.org/docs/mutual_creamery_history.pdf〕 and a turkey plant was one of the town's major economic and industrial contributors. Not many farms are currently left over in Aitkin and by the 1990s, Aitkin has changed into a community for retirement and tourism, especially with the lake areas and that continues up to today. Health care, education, human services, and non-profit organizations are one of the major contributors to the modern day Aitkin economy, along with the hospitality industry.
Aitkin throughout the years in various locations had been impacted by occasional flooding of the Mississippi River. Major notable floods had reached past such as the 1950 flood and nearly , such as the summer flooding in 2012. Many damage has taken place of the town because of the floods, and the 2012 flood was one of the first floods that overflowed the lake areas, flooding the cabins, since it was based on heavy rainfall instead of melting snow.
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