On September 17th a Fargo rabbi will be dedicating a marker at a Jewish cemetery in rural Devils Lake (directions here); I find it facinating that Jewish culture, one generally far removed from the Scandinavian and German immigrants who dominated this region, established themselves in this untamed new territory called it home. According to the second link above, the cemetery dates to the 1860s -- a time period when the cemetery was surrounded by "Unorganized Territory."
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