Moorhead, Minnesota

Everything Moorhead is known for

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Music in Moorhead

Songs About Moorhead

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Artists From Moorhead

Rivers & Roads in Song near Moorhead

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

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.

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