Princeton is a city in Mille Lacs and Sherburne counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota, at the junction of the Rum River and its West Branch.

In the winter of 1855 Samuel Ross, Jame W. Gillian, Dorilus Morrison, John S. Prince and Richard Chute platted the town of Princeton.

[8][9] Princeton's location near the junction of the Rum River and its West Branch was critical to the town's development.

From 1889 through the late 1920s several brickyards operated in Brickton, collectively producing as many as 20 million bricks per year.

"[8] Other important industries in Princeton's early years included wheat farming (before potatoes became primary),[10] potato farming, starch production, dairy, and distilled spirits production, in which the town's distillery continues to play a key role.

U.S. Highway 169 passes through the west side of the city on a four-lane bypass, leading north 14 miles (23 km) to Milaca, the Mille Lacs county seat, and south 19 miles (31 km) to Elk River, the Sherburne county seat.

State Highway 95 passes through the north side of the city, leading east 18 miles (29 km) to Cambridge and west to St.

[3] The Rum River and its West Branch join in the northeast part of the city.

The Princeton High School Student Council organized a community effort to break the world record for simultaneously erupting coke geysers on May 27, 2011.

[13] Hundreds of students participated, with a goal of setting off a series of 3,000 geysers,[14] a figure they exceeded with 3,051 total simultaneous eruptions.

[15] Students say the idea grew from a plan for a graduation prank into a way to put their small town on the map.

[14] A video[16] of the attempt was broadcast on Minnesota NBC News affiliate KARE 11 and edited by a YouTube user named Physics314Nerd.