History of New Rockford: June 14, 2021

On the night of March 1, 1904, a heavy snow began to fall and it continued all of March 2, giving New Rockford more snow than it had had all winter. The storm stopped all trains that day, and on the morning of March 3, a snow plow came up from Jamestown to clear the tracks. Then the wind kicked up on the morning of March 4, filled in the cuts with snow, and both the northbound and the southbound t...