Back Then with Tracy Briggs

Wish you were here! Fargoans once sent postcards of Island Park to their friends


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All of the talk recently of reinvigorating Island Park in Fargo sparked a sweet memory for 87-year-old Joanne Wilson of Moorhead.

Wilson recently found an old postcard her mother wrote to a friend in Wisconsin in 1910 featuring the park.

The young city (just 35 years old in 1910) was clearly proud of its oldest and grandest park, choosing it as the image to share of Fargo to out-of-town relatives.

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