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410 <br /> Local newspapers were important to the community's success. <br /> The Sherburne County Weekly was published ca.1869-70.The <br /> Sherburne County Star and the Elk River Weekly were <br /> inaugurated in 1875.In 1882,Arthur N.Dare purchased both <br /> papers as the Sherburne County Star News. <br /> !gilt <br /> '` <br /> 114;7,,,,,,,.:1,.,,,,::,/,;,:di' , ,,,,,i,t.log* ,,:- ,,,, ‘,2,;',..1 iips, <br /> ,fi . <br /> • - ' ' '.4;14, 0-. ' '-''.k..,. -- --- <br /> Y <br /> The steel bridge and the Elk River Milling Company flour mill,ca.1910. <br /> Photo:SCHS. <br /> Industrial Development after Ard Godfrey <br /> Spurred by the agricultural economy,the northern Minnesota <br /> lumber boom,and an expanding population,Elk River's small <br /> flour and lumber milling industry prospered for many <br /> decades. Saw milling was the leading manufacturing activity, <br /> sustaining local companies and employees from 1851 into the <br /> early twentieth century.Flour and starch production also <br /> contributed to early industrial activity,with both active into <br /> the early twentieth century. <br /> • <br /> Elk River Historic Contexts and Phase II Downtown Commercial Area Study <br /> 31 <br />