History of New Rockford- Dec. 10, 2018

On Feb. 15, 1902, John West and his son Eddie were in from Tiffany. Martin Walsh and Peter McAvoy of Morris were in on business. Two young farmers from Iowa, John H. Scherer and Oral A. Heather, filed on a quarter of land in Eddy County after looking around North Dakota for three weeks.

About noon on Sunday, Feb. 16, fire destroyed the house on B.G. Allen’s farm 4 miles northeast of New Rockf...