Fargo, capital of Cass county, North Dakota, on the Red River of the North, 254 miles W. of Duluth by rail. From an insignificant village in 1874 it has become the financial and commercial centre of the state, with flour manufactures and a Congregational college. A great fire in 1893 destroyed property to the value of more than $2,000,000. Pop. (1890) 5664.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 549–550
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