History of New Rockford: March 7, 2022

On Nov. 4, 1904, a group of boys went swimming in the James River. Olof Barkland was down from the Sheyenne Valley on business and to visit. He had sold his farm to people from Illinois and was looking forward to visiting his mother and other relatives in Sweden, where he hadn’t been in 25 years. J.E. Renfrew came in on business and to visit. Republicans E.F. Porter, running for Secretary of...