| Summary: | 700 The North Dakota Indians Ancient Stone Found In the fall of 1928 Frank Edenstrom's son picked up a stone on the banks of the Red River on their farm near Christine, which had the head of a man carved upon it. Geologists and archaeologists at the State Agricultural College have examined it and believe it to be more than 100,000 years old. As no such work is accredited to the North Dakota Indians, it is probably the carving of some pre-historic people and was brought down from the north and deposited in the drift of the glacial period. Striations on the stone indicate its long journey by glacier and strengthens the belief that some pre-pleistocine man patiently chipped away with his crude tools on the hard rock to leave evidence of his artistic temperaments for later generations. Many arrowheads, stone hammers and Indian clubs have been found in the same vicinity. How Many Towns Were Named The Northern Pacific Railway named many of their towns after their officials or other prominent persons connected with the development of the country. The Great Northern Railway towns were named after their officials or home towns of their stockholders in Canada or England. Most of the Soo Line towns were named at random from an old English railway guide. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Puget Sound Railway named many of their towns after their officials. Where Settlers Came From The pioneer settlements were often small colonies from foreign countries and were well scattered over the state. The French-Canadian and Scotch-Canadian settlements in northeastern North Dakota; the Bohemians in Richland county; the Norwegians and Swedes in Cass, Richland, Traill, Steele, Griggs, Nelson, Benson, and northern Wells counties; the Danes in Steele and Griggs counties; the Icelanders at Mountain; the Russians at Ruso; the Polanders in northern Stutsman county; the Rumanians and Russian-Germans in Wells, Sheridan and Mcintosh counties, and the Germans, Bohemians and Scandin- Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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