On This Day | Went Back for the Potatoes

The Clouses stopped at Dodgen, intending to locate there. John Clouse planted some potatoes in the sod, but he heard of better land in the Des Lacs and Mouse river valleys around Burlington, so he pulled stakes and came on here. While at Dodgen the cows gave birth to two calves and the calves were put into the back of the covered wagon and hauled to Burlington. That fall Mr. Clouse went back to Dodgen some 60 miles and dug his little crop of spuds. Nick recalls how on July in 1883, on the way to their new home at Burlington, they stopped on Erick Ramstad’s homestead for dinner, about the same spot where the Leland-Parker hotel now stands. Mintot was not started until three years later.

1943-11-11 | Ward County Independent