The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Brooks was established in 1904 as a station on the Soo Line Railroad. By 1926, Brooks had two general stores, a grocery store, a bank, hardware store, butcher shop, blacksmith shop, a livery barn, two saloons, a community hall and a hotel to accommodate travelers. Brooks was primarily a service town for the surrounding agricultural townships, and a creamery was established as the local dairying business developed on neighboring farms. After the invention of the cream separator, family farms in adjoining townships of Polk and Red Lake counties switched from subsistence agriculture to a market economy and became a part of the dairy industry.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Brooks’s history is told.
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2000
Nothing in Brooks is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Brooks has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Clearwater Evangelical Lutheran Church in Equality, 13.1 miles away.
Brooks and the nearest listed places
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.