Trysil, North Dakota

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Trysil, ND

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].

Proposed Trysil crossing

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).


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