West of Mahnomen County in the flat, flood-prone Red River Valley is Norman County (pop. 6,852).
Norman County, March 2009
The county’s main agricultural products are soybeans, wheat, and sugar beets.
The county seat, Ada (pop. 1,707), has a large courthouse that was built in 1904 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.
Brown brick and sandstone
Ada’s Village Hall was also built in 1904.
Classical Revival style.
The small Orpheum Theatre in downtown Ada shows first-run movies.
The town of Halstad (pop. 597), on the Red River, was the hometown of bandleader Skitch Henderson.
“The Tonight Show’s” original bandleader
The town of Shelly (pop. 266) is the home of the Red River Museum.
In an Art Deco schoolhouse
The Agassiz Recreational Trail, a 53-mile multi-purpose trail on an abandoned railroad grade, goes north-south through Norman County.
Named for paleontologist Louis Agassiz and prehistoric Lake Agassiz
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I like that recreation trail. It looks like it runs though beautiful country.
I wonder how far one needs to travel to see a hill!
Omigosh, thank you for doing this county,
My favorite highway on your map so far
is State 39 where I could drive my car
through Perley and Borup and Syre and Flom,
each name intriguing and full of aplomb.
feels like an Iowa county