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Sherbrooke, North Dakota

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Country
  
United States

County
  
Steele

Founded
  
1884

Elevation
  
382 m

Area code
  
701

State
  
North Dakota

Township
  
Sherbrooke

Time zone
  
Mountain (CST) (UTC-6)

Local time
  
Saturday 3:00 AM

Named for
  
Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke, North Dakota

Weather
  
4°C, Wind N at 10 km/h, 100% Humidity

Sherbrooke is a ghost town in Steele County in the U.S. State of North Dakota. It was the county seat from 1885 to 1919, when the government moved to the current county seat of Finley. It is located in Sherbrooke Township.

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Map of Sherbrooke, ND 58046, USA

History

Sherbrooke was named after Sherbrooke Village in Quebec, Canada, which itself was named after Sir John Coape Sherbrooke (1764 – 1830), Governor General of Canada from 1816 to 1818.

The Sherbrooke House Hotel was a prominent fixture in the community. The hotel was purchased in 1893 by Washington Irving Warrey, who served as Steele County judge from 1894 to 1905. Hotel records indicate President William McKinley stayed at the hotel in 1896 during a trip to North Dakota.

On June 28, 1918, county residents voted to move the county seat from Sherbrooke to "some other and more convenient place", since Sherbrooke did not lie along the railroad or an interstate river. Finley, North Dakota, received the most votes. Residents of Sherbrooke petitioned the North Dakota Supreme Court for an injunction to stop the relocation. The Supreme Court denied the petition, and the county seat was moved in 1919.

References

Sherbrooke, North Dakota Wikipedia