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Homesteading in Sherman County

Edson

Edson has the distinction of being the last town started in the county, and the last town that was started along the railroad. Albert and Laura Harris named and platted the town which was filed for record on August 10, 1888.

The ethnicity of its settlers is not known.

Sources

"They Came to Stay". Sherman County Historical Society, 1980.



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