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Shooks’s history is
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The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Shooks is an unincorporated community in Shooks Township, Beltrami County, Minnesota, United States. The community is located northeast of Bemidji at the junction of Minnesota State Highways 1 and 72.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 189 people in 2010, 187 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1987.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Shooks yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

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Famous people close to Shooks

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Mal FreeburgMal FreeburgBlackduck · 11 miRFRobert A. FalkTenstrike · 18 miALAva LangeBlackduck · 11 mi
By decade

Shooks, decade by decade

Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Shooks is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Shooks has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Saum Schools in Woodrow, 10.8 miles away.

Shooks and the nearest listed places

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Saum SchoolsMinnesota and International Railway Trestle at BlackduckRabideau Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp

Closest to Shooks

Saum SchoolsWoodrow · Building10.8miMinnesota and International Railway Trestle at BlackduckBlackduck · Structure11.3miRabideau Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) CampTaylor · District17.3mi

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Saum Schools’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Shooks?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Shooks’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.

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