| Summary: | 744 Spokesfield's Origin Fort Yates—A U. S. Army fort on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Postoffice established March 19, 1883. Fortuna—Named after the Roman Goddess of good fortune. Foxholm—Named after an English city of literary importance. Freeborn—An early day postoffice in northeastern Eddy county, located south of Free People's Lake, and named in honor of the pioneer settlers who, being outside of the Fort Totten Indian Reservation limits and not connected with the army or fort, were called free people, and their children free-born. Some of the people also came from Freeborn county, Minnesota. Free People Lake—A lake near Ft. Totten named for the metis or Bois Brules (half-breeds) from Pembina who called themselves free people and when they came to hunt and fish in the Devils Lake vicinity camped by themselves to keep away from the savage Dakotas. Fried—Named for John B. Fried, founder and first postmaster. Frog Point—Early day stage and steamboat station, now the site of Belmont on the Red River. Fullerton—Named for P. C. Puller of Grand Rapids, Michigan, who owned much land in that vicinity. Fryburg—Named in honor of Gen. Fry, of the U. S. Army. Funston—Named for IF S. Funston, land commissioner for the Soo Line Railway. Gackle—Named for George Gackle, founder and local pioneer. Galchutt—Named for Hans Galchutt, local pioneer who set- tld there in 1879. Galesburg—Named for J. H. Gale, who owned and platted the townsite. Gall—Named for Chief Justice John Gall of the Teton-Dakota nation. Gallatin—Postoffice established Oct. 24, 1881, and discontinued July 14, 1905. Situated near the Griggs-Steele county line. An important rural postoffice in pioneer days. Superseded by rural free delivery on July 14, 1905. Gardar—Named by the Icelandic settlers there in honor of the man who discovered Iceland. It was also the name of a town in Greenland founded by Eric the Red about 985 A. D. It flourished for some 400 years and then vanished, and no trace of the Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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