Editing Princeton, Minnesota (section)

===Lumbering===
Princeton's location near the junction of the Rum River and its West Branch was critical to the town's development. In 1847, Daniel Stanchfield led an expedition to explore the Rum River.<ref name=centennial/> The group discovered vast [[Pinus strobus|white pine]] forests upstream from Princeton's future site along the Rum River, the West Branch Rum River, and their tributaries. Three sawmills were built in Princeton between 1856 and 1867. Lumbermen floated logs down the Rum River to the Princeton mills, though most of the logs passed through Princeton to mills in [[Minneapolis]].