Trysil, North Dakota
September 2nd, 1873, Norwegian homesteader Ole Strandwold staked his claim on the SW¼ of section 24, township 142, range 49 in Cass County, North Dakota, around 8 miles north of Dakota City, around 6 miles east of the current location of Gardner, North Dakota, and across the river from the Hudson Bay Trading Company outpost. Ole established a post office and named it Trysil after his hometown Trysil, Osterdalen, Norway; shortly thereafter a Norwegian Lutheran church was built to the north and named Trysil Lutheran Church. The Trysil name did not last: the church changed its name to Nora Lutheran Church in 1885[1], and Strandwold's post office was eliminated in 1899[2].
The location of Trysil would place it across the river from the Gerogetown Hudson Bay Trading Post, rather than Georgetown itself as some maps would indicate. An 1879 map shows a proposed Northern Pacific rail line crossing of the Red River would have passed very near Trysil, connecting to Fort Totten, ND (see left).
References
- ↑ http://www.geocities.com/noralutheran/history.html History of Nora Lutheran Church, retrieved 8/1/09.
- ↑ Origins of North Dakota Place Names, Mary Ann Barnes Williams
