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CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



Front Street, Moorhead, Looking West from Eighth Street 



Moorhead 



Moorhead has been known for many 

 years to be the educational center of 

 the northwestern part of the state. The 

 city also enjoys the reputation of be- 

 ing one of the leading cities of the Red 

 River Valley. When Clay County was 

 organized Moorhead became and is 

 still the county seat. The city has a 



population of about 5,500 and has all 

 the improvements that a city of many 

 times the population might be expect- 

 ed to have. 



It is on the main line of the North- 

 ern Pacific and on both the Fergus 

 Falls and Breckenridge lines of the 

 Great Northern, besides being the ter- 

 minus of several of the branch lines 



Boat Landing on the Red River at Moorhead 



