STILLWATER, stIrwirter, Minn., city, county-seat of Washington County, on Saint Croix River, 30 miles from its junction with the Mississippi River, and on the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul, the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Saint Paul, Minnesota and Ohio railroads, about 18 miles northeast of Saint Paul. It has steamer connections with the river ports and regular connection with Dubuque and Saint Louis. It was settled in 1840, and incorporated as a city in 1854. The Saint Croix River boom, through which pass each year about 300,000,000 feet of pine logs, is north of and near the city. Stillwater is in an agricultural region, and is extensively engaged in manufacturing. The chief industrial estab lishments are flour and feed mills, grain elevators, lumber mills, foundries, machine shops, carriage and wagon works, and furniture factories. The city has a large trade in logs, lumber and lumber products, wheat. flour and
livestock. It is the commercial and industrial centre of the Saint Croix lumber region in Minnesota and Wisconsin and has grain elevators, machine shops, foundries, breweries, brickyards, boat and wagon factories. The educational institutions are a high school, public and parish elementary schools, private business schools, two convents, the Minnesota State prison, and the Carnegie library. The govern ment is vested in a mayor and council of nine members, three of whom are elected each year. Stillwater was first located on the plain border ing on Lake Saint Croix, with bluffs outside the settled portion. Now the old part of the city is given up to trade and manufacturing houses and the residential portion is on the bluffs. Pop. about 11,000.