Editing Argyle, Minnesota (section)

==History==
Before [[James J. Hill]] bought the [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern Railway]] in 1879 and accepted the task of completing the line from [[Crookston, Minnesota|Crookston]] to the [[Canada–United States border|Canada–US border]], a French-Canadian man founded a town named Louisa, after the French king, in the path of the railroad. However, Hill's company located the new railroad town just south of the Louisa property line and named it Argyle. The early settlement included many French-Canadians. Other settlers included immigrants from England, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Scotland, and Germany. The early townspeople and businessmen were always anxious to make Argyle an attractive community to the region. Today the community still boasts of several businesses, which draw customers from the regional area. Because of threats of flooding, a dike was built on the Middle River which is a branch of the [[Red River of the North|Red River]] in 1988.