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Thomas and Almira Campbell emigrated from Perth, Ontario in 1875 and started their farm on this site with eighty acres of land and a sod shanty. In 1879, they built the log cabin that became the original part of the Campbell House, and an addition was constructed on the south side of the cabin in 1900. Thomas D. Campbell, Jr. was born in the house in 1882, graduated from Central High School and the University of North Dakota, and later became famous for building a 95,000 acre wheat farm near Hardin, Montana on land rented from members of the Crow Indian Reservation. He died in 1966, and his heirs transferred ownership of the house to the Grand Forks County Historical Society in 1971. After extensive restoration, it opened for tours later that year.
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Grand Forks, North Dakota · United States
