Editing Cook, Minnesota (section)

==History==
The city of Cook was known initially as ''Little Fork'', because of [[Little Fork River|the river of the same name]] that runs through the city,<ref name="cookmn.com">"Chronology: Cook", http://www.cookmn.com/L-History.htm</ref> later known as ''Ashawa'', which means "by the river or across the river";<ref name="cookmn.com"/> its name was changed to Cook on August 1, 1908, at the request of the U.S. Postal Service "because of confusion with a village in southern Minnesota named [[Oshawa Township, Nicollet County, Minnesota|Oshawa]]". The town was named in honor of [[Wirth Cook]], an owner of the railroad that was constructed through Cook in 1903 and 1904.<ref name="cookmn.com"/> Cook was incorporated on May 13, 1926.<ref name="Cook Minnesota">{{cite web|url= http://www.city-data.com/city/Cook-Minnesota.html|title= Cook Minnesota|publisher= City-Data.com|access-date= October 4, 2012}}</ref>