The construction of two interstates ( I-29 and I-94) revolutionized travel in the region and pushed growth of Fargo to the south and west of the city limits. Ted Fujita, famous for his Fujita tornado scale, analyzed pictures of the Fargo tornado, helping him develop his ideas for "wall cloud" and "tail cloud." These were the first major scientific descriptive terms associated with tornadoes. įargo-Moorhead boomed after World War II, and the city grew rapidly despite a violent F5 tornado in 1957 that destroyed a large part of the north end of the city. To a crowd of 30,000, Roosevelt spoke about his first visit to Fargo 27 years earlier, and credited his experience homesteading in North Dakota for his eventual rise to the presidency. On Labor Day in 1910, Theodore Roosevelt visited Fargo to lay the cornerstone of the college's new library. In 1960, NDAC became known as North Dakota State University.Ģ0th century F5 tornado as it approaches Hector International Airport, 1957Įarly in the century, the automobile industry flourished, and in 1905, Fargo became home to the Pence Automobile Company. The North Dakota Agricultural College was founded in 1890 as North Dakota's land-grant university, becoming first accredited by the North Central Association in 1915. There were several rumors concerning the cause of the fire. More than 246 new buildings were built within one year. Ī major fire struck the city on June 7, 1893, destroying 31 blocks of downtown Fargo, but the city was immediately rebuilt with new buildings made of brick, new streets, and a water system. The area started to flourish after the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad and the city became known as the "Gateway to the West."ĭuring the 1880s, Fargo became the "divorce capital" of the Midwest because of lenient divorce laws. The city was originally named "Centralia," but was later renamed "Fargo" after Northern Pacific Railway director and Wells Fargo Express Company founder William Fargo (1818–1881). Historically part of Sioux ( Dakota) territory, the area that is present-day Fargo was an early stopping point for steamboats traversing the Red River during the 1870s and 1880s. See also: Timeline of Fargo, North Dakota Early history
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