Moorhead, Minnesota

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Music in Moorhead

Songs About Moorhead

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"And leave your body resting Moorhead"

Artists From Moorhead

Rivers & Roads in Song near Moorhead

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Moorhead.

U.S. Route 59 9 songs

History of Moorhead

The Town That Took a Railroad Man's Name RoadyGoat

Fargo grew up in 1871 on the flat western bank of the Red River of the North, a townsite first called Centralia before it was renamed for Northern Pacific Railway director William Fargo (yes, the same name behind Wells Fargo). The dead-level country around it isn't an accident: this is the old floor of glacial Lake Agassiz, drained roughly nine thousand years ago, leaving some of the richest farm soil on earth. The Red River is a geographic oddity too, one of the few major rivers in North America that flows north. As for the Coen brothers' 1996 film 'Fargo,' most of its story actually unfolds across the river in Minnesota and around the Twin Cities, not here. A homegrown point of pride: the Roger Maris Museum, a free seventy-foot display case inside West Acres mall honoring the Fargo kid who hit sixty-one home runs in 1961.

Fargo and the Great Floods of the Red River

1997

Fargo has battled catastrophic Red River floods repeatedly, most notably in 1997 and 2009, when the entire city mobilized to build sandbag dikes and save their community.

Bonanzaville: When Wheat Was King

1875

Bonanzaville preserves the era of the bonanza farms — massive wheat operations in the Red River Valley that were the agribusiness giants of the 1870s and transformed North Dakota into the breadbasket of America.

7.5 mi away

Everything Near Moorhead

7 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

Fargo Theatre · 0.9 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Prepare to be transported back to the roaring twenties! The Fargo Theatre, a dazzling art deco movie palace, has been a Fargo landmark since 1926. Construction began in the fall of 1925, and the theater opened its doors…
Fargo and the Great Floods of the Red River · 1.0 mi · Historical Marker
Fargo has battled catastrophic Red River floods repeatedly, most notably in 1997 and 2009, when the entire city mobilized to build sandbag dikes and save their community.
The Town That Took a Railroad Man's Name · 1.0 mi
Fargo grew up in 1871 on the flat western bank of the Red River of the North, a townsite first called Centralia before it was renamed for Northern Pacific Railway director William Fargo (yes, the same name behind Wells…
Fargo, ND · 1.0 mi · Local history
Fargo, North Dakota, has seen rapid growth in recent years, presenting both opportunities and challenges to its deeply-rooted sense of community. The construction boom is impossible to ignore – new apartment complexes…
Fargo City Detention Hospital · 1.1 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Imagine being quarantined here, away from your family and friends, simply because you were sick. That's what faced people at the Fargo City Detention Hospital. Built in 1910, this hospital was designed to isolate…
George and Beth Anderson House · 1.2 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Check out that house! It's not what you'd expect to see in Fargo. It’s the George and Beth Anderson House, designed in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright. Built in 1958, the house was designed by Ingraham & Ingraham…
Bonanzaville: When Wheat Was King · 7.5 mi · Historical
Bonanzaville preserves the era of the bonanza farms — massive wheat operations in the Red River Valley that were the agribusiness giants of the 1870s and transformed North Dakota into the breadbasket of America.

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