Fargo, North Dakota
Businessmen 1883
The information below
was taken from a very rare business directory to the western American
businesses along the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad titled "The
Northern Pacific Railway Business Directory 1883-84. Containing a Classified
List of All Business and Professional Men on the Line of the Northern
Pacific Railway, From Bozeman, Montana to St. Paul and Duluth, inclusive.
Also Sketches of All Important Towns, and Illustrations of Points of Interest."
Published by Mowry & Fairbanks. Minneapolis, 1883. The information
is presented verbatim from pages 83-91.
Links are provided to other pages with additional information.
Fargo, Cass county, Dak, 274 miles from St. Paul, has 8,000 inhabitants, twelve hotels, seven churches, four banks, and five newspapers (two daily and three weeklies) two public halls, new opera house, a court house, car wheel works, street railway, high school, electric light, three elevators, two planing mills, manufactories, and all the various branches of trade which make a thrifty and prosperous city. The people are enterprising, energetic and lose no opportunity to employ all available means to promote its growth and importance. It is, in fact, the commercial center of the New Northwest, being favorably situated on the Red river in the center of a rich agricultural belt, and especially adapted to the raising of wheat, rye, and potatoes. The Northern Pacific has round houses and car shops, this being the end of the Fargo and Southwestern Branch. Following is a list of businessmen: