Fargo residents pulled out all the stops for the city’s 75 th anniversary of incorporation. A weeklong celebration of daily events marked the occasion. Fargo started as a railroad town along the Red River where the Northern Pacific Railroad crossed from Minnesota into Dakota Territory. The town was named after banker William G. Fargo and boomed as Dakota grew with the railroads. Today Fargo is North Dakota’s largest community. At the time of the celebration in 1950, it had a mere 38,000