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Aitkin, MN - History
We would like to provide the residents of Aitkin a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Aitkin Home page. The Aitkin Home page provides as much information as possible on Aitkin. Knowing Aitkin’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Aitkin’s Home page, you will also find Aitkin’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Aitkin has a population of 2253. 47.9% of Aitkin’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.1 are female. 42% of Aitkin is married and 57.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $131,668, and the average rent is $558. Household median income in Aitkin is $32,841, and the individual median income is $22,903. Aitkin’s Ethnic is the following: White(97.9%), Multiple(0.8%), Hispanic(0.7%), Black(0.7%), Native(0.7%).
Before the establishment of City of Aitkin, a transient community of Lexington was located at the mouth of the Ripple River, at its confluence with the Mississippi River. However, maps from the 1860s erroneously depict the village of Ojibway (or Ogibeway) at the mouth of the Ripple River. (Today the town here is known as Riverton.) Due to the importance of regional trade at Lexington, the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad was planned to pass near there.
Aitkin was founded in 1870 when the Northern Pacific Railroad was extended to that point, replacing and annexing Lexington. 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.The development of industries attracted people to the town.
In the late 19th and early 20th century, a massive wave of immigrants, mostly from present-day Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavian countries, moved into the Aitkin area to work in the logging and riverboat industries. They were able to start working before they had learned much English. After the Great Depression and World War II, the logging industry declined.
The area developed as a farming community, based on production of cattle and poultry, which continued until the late 1970s to early 1980s. A creamery and a turkey plant were important to the town's economy. With the decline of small family farms in agriculture, many abandoned farms can be seen throughout the county. By the 1990s, Aitkin had changed again, developing as a community for retirement and tourism, especially with its lake areas.
The tourism and service industries are central today. Health care, education, human services, and non-profit organizations are some of the major contributors to the modern-day Aitkin economy, along with the hospitality industry. Aitkin has been affected by occasional flooding of the Mississippi River.
Major notable floods had reached past 20 feet (6 m), such as the 1950 flood, and nearly 19 feet (6 m), such as the summer flooding in 2012. The 2012 flood was one of the first floods that overflowed into the lake areas, flooding the cabins, since it was caused by heavy rainfall instead of melting snow. Five properties in Aitkin are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the 1901 Patrick Casey House, the 1902 Potter/Casey Company Building, the 1911 Aitkin Carnegie Library, the 1916 Northern Pacific Depot, and the Aitkin County Courthouse and Jail (built in 1920 and 1915, respectively).
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