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9 unusual facts about Grand Forks


Bernard Lequime

With his property sold, Bernard and his family moved to Grand Forks.

Charles W. Lindberg

Lindberg was a native of Grand Forks, North Dakota when he enlisted in the Marine Corps shortly after the Japanese Navy attack on Pearl Harbor.

Cream of Wheat

It was first manufactured in the United States in 1893 by wheat millers in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

George H. Walsh

George H. Walsh (November 24, 1868–April 2, 1913) was an American newspaper editor and publisher from Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Hans Andersen Foss

A lifelong proponent of the temperance movement and the Populist Party, Foss edited several temperance publications and from 1888 to 1893 served as editor for the Norwegian language newspaper Normanden in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

ICON A5

On August 6, 2012, Icon announced that Cirrus Aircraft would produce composite airframe components for the A5 at its Grand Forks, North Dakota facility.

Maple Bay, Minnesota

The nearby lake is a summer resort and playground for residents of Crookston, Minnesota, Grand Forks, North Dakota and other nearby communities, and also offers excellent ice fishing.

R.S. Blome Granitoid Pavement in Grand Forks

R.S. Blome Granitoid Pavement is a historic road surface, as well as the associated cut sandstone curbs in a few sections, found in three of the oldest residential sections of Grand Forks, North Dakota.

The Sentimentalists

Hailing from Grand Forks, North Dakota, they were a mere seventeen to twenty-three years of age, when they signed with the Tommy Dorsey Band, in 1944, to replace the popular Pied Pipers, after the Pipers had quit Dorsey's band to go out on their own.


Anaconda, British Columbia

Anaconda is a ghost town and former mining and smelting centre in the Boundary Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located west of the city of Grand Forks to the south of the confluence of Eholt and Boundary Creeks.

Hugo's

Hugo Magnuson, a former mayor of Grand Forks, opened his first grocery store, the Pure Food Market, in Grand Forks.

KSNR

In 2005, KSNR changed its city of license from Thief River Falls to Fisher, which would allow it to move its transmitter tower closer to Grand Forks in the future.

Leighton Broadcasting

Leighton Broadcasting is a radio broadcasting company based in St. Cloud, Minnesota that owns several radio stations in St. Cloud as well as in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota and Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Sheyenne River

Thanks to a diversion canal completed near Horace, the major Sheyenne River cities fared well in the 1997 Red River Flood which devastated the cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota.

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex

The Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex was a cluster of military facilities near Grand Forks, North Dakota which supported the United States Army's Safeguard anti-ballistic missile program.

United States Senate election in North Dakota, 1988

Only Burdick filed as a Dem-NPLer, and the endorsed Republican candidate was Earl Strinden of Grand Forks, North Dakota, who was President of the University of North Dakota Alumni Association.


see also

2009 Red River flood

Following the 1997 Red River Flood, Grand Forks and East Grand Forks smoothed out some of the river curves in those cities.

Alerus

Alerus Financial, a chain of financial institutions headquartered in Grand Forks, North Dakota

Arvilla

Arvilla, North Dakota, a community in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, in the United States

B'nai Israel Synagogue and Montefiore Cemetery

Montefiore Cemetery in Grand Forks is one of many institutions named for Sir Moses Montefiore.

Charles Thurber

No monument exists at the site of the lynching, which took place on the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway (later becoming the Great Northern Railway) bridge over the Red River between Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota.

GFPS

Grand Forks Public Schools, the public school system of Grand Forks, North Dakota

Goose River Bridge

Northwood Bridge, Grand Forks County, North Dakota, also known as Goose River Bridge, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Graber House

House at 1648 Riverside Drive, Grand Forks, North Dakota, NRHP-listed and also known as Graber Residence

International Forest Products

In BC this includes two sawmills (Acorn and Hammond) on the Coast; two sawmills in the Kootenay region (Grand Forks and Castlegar); and one sawmill in the Southern Interior region near Kamloops (Adams Lake).

KKXL

KKXL-FM, a radio station (92.9 FM) licensed to Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States

Manvel

Manvel, North Dakota, a city in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States

Red River Bridge

Sorlie Memorial Bridge, Grand Forks, North Dakota, also known as Red River Bridge

Rick Weiland

In 1997, as Weiland was being installed as regional director of FEMA, the Red River swamped its banks, causing unprecedented flooding to North Dakota and Minnesota, inundating all of downtown Fargo and causing the evacuation of Grand Forks, North Dakota in an event known as the Red River Flood.

Sister cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota

While the relationship with Ishim faded, Grand Forks found a new sister in Awano, Japan.

Sørlie

Sorlie Memorial Bridge, connects the cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota

WDAZ-TV

Owned by Forum Communications of Fargo, which also owns the Grand Forks Herald, WDAZ has facilities on South Washington Street in Grand Forks near Kmart and a news bureau and sales office on U.S. Highway 2 in Devils Lake.