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GRAND FORKS , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Grand Forks county, See also:North Dakota, U.S.A., at the junction of the Red See also:river (of the North) and Red See also:Lake river (whence its name), about 8o m. N. of See also:Fargo. Pop. (1900) 7652, of whom.2781 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905) 10,127; (1910) 27,888. It is served by the See also:Northern Pacific and the See also:Great Northern See also:railways, and has a considerable river See also:traffic, the Red river (when dredged) having a channel 6o ft. wide and 4 ft. deep at See also:low See also:water below Grand Forks. At University, a small suburb, is the University of North Dakota (co-educational; opened 1884). Affiliated with it is See also:Wesley See also:College (Methodist Episcopal), now at Grand Forks (with a campus adjoining that of the University); but formerly the Red River Valley University at Wahpeton, North Dakota. In 19o7–19o8 the University had S7 instructors and 861 students; its library had 25,000 See also:bound volumes and 5000 See also:pamphlets. At Grand Forks, also, are St See also:Bernard's Ursuline See also:Academy (See also:Roman See also:Catholic) and Grand Forks College (Lutheran). Among the city's See also:principal buildings are the public library, the Federal See also:building and a Y.M.C.A. building. As the centre of the great See also:wheat valley of the Red river, it has a busy See also:trade in wheat, See also:flour and agricultural machinery and implements, as well as large jobbing interests. There are railway See also:car-shops here, and among the manufactures are crackers, brooms, bricks and tiles and See also:cement.

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municipality owns its water-See also:works and an electric See also:lighting plant for See also:street lighting. In 18o1 See also:John See also:Cameron (d. 1804) erected a temporary trading See also:post for the North-See also:West See also:Fur See also:Company on the site of the See also:present city; it afterwards became a trading post of the See also:Hudson's See also:Bay Company. The first permanent See also:settlement was made in 1871, and Grand Forks was reached by the Northern Pacific and chartered as a city in 1881.

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