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Moorhead

Minnesota, United States
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Moorhead, city, seat (1872) of Clay county, western Minnesota, U.S. It lies along the Red River of the North across from Fargo, North Dakota, in a mixed-farming area. Founded with the coming of the railroad in 1871, it was a natural transportation hub and river-crossing point, with overland road and rail traffic meeting the barges and, later, steamboats on the river. The city was named for William G. Moorhead, a director of the Northern Pacific...

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