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Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 1572-00001
Title: Rosser's camp, Fargo (D.T)
Date: 1871
Creator: Caswell & Davy (Duluth, Minn.)
Summary: Fargo as a tent city in the very early days. The view is across a field with trees on the right next to the encampment.||As the tracks crossed into northern Dakota Territory at the Red River, Thomas L. Rosser, the chief engineer set up tent towns to provide shelter for the workers. This became the foundation of North Dakota’s largest city, Fargo. Rosser’s camp was known as Fargo on the Prairie. Fargo in the Timber, a camp of gamblers and traders, was located on the river banks a mile away.The earliest residents of Fargo on the Prairie were the engineers and construction workers of General Rosser’s Northern Pacific Railroad crew. They lived in this tent city from the summer of 1871 to 1873. This photo was taken in 1871.
Red ID: PH_I_93296 Image ID: 37268 Image Notes: A1572-00001-back

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Title: A Collection
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Collection Summary
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 1572-00001
Title: Rosser's camp, Fargo (D.T)
Date: 1871
Creator: Caswell & Davy (Duluth, Minn.)
Summary: Fargo as a tent city in the very early days. The view is across a field with trees on the right next to the encampment.||As the tracks crossed into northern Dakota Territory at the Red River, Thomas L. Rosser, the chief engineer set up tent towns to provide shelter for the workers. This became the foundation of North Dakota’s largest city, Fargo. Rosser’s camp was known as Fargo on the Prairie. Fargo in the Timber, a camp of gamblers and traders, was located on the river banks a mile away.The earliest residents of Fargo on the Prairie were the engineers and construction workers of General Rosser’s Northern Pacific Railroad crew. They lived in this tent city from the summer of 1871 to 1873. This photo was taken in 1871.
Red ID: PH_I_93296 Image ID: 37267 Image Notes: A1572-00001

Collection: A Digitized Images from Collection
Title: A Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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