BROOKINGS

city, seat of Brookings county, eastern South Dakota, U.S., in the Big Sioux River Valley. Founded in 1879 and named for Judge W.W. Brookings, it evolved as the centre of a diversified agricultural area, noted especially for hybrid corn and seeds. A progressive farm economy has been sustained by the agricultural and horticultural schools of South Dakota State University, which was established in Brookings in 1881 and is the state's only land-grant school. A collection of pioneer-life paintings by Harvey Dunn is exhibited at the South Dakota Memorial Art Center. Inc. 1883. Pop. (1990) 16,270.